Believing in Shakespeare - Studies in Longing

Informationen zum Autor Claire McEachern is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612 (Cambridge, 1996); and editor of eight of Shakespeare's plays including the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (2015). Her essay collections include the Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2015), and, with Debora Shuger, Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance (Cambridge, 1997). Klappentext A discussion of the connections between believing in Shakespeare's play and a post-Reformation understanding of salvation. Zusammenfassung This book provides a historically sensitive account of the invention of suspense in Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with Protestant thought! and how the belief of an audience in a play functions in relation to the belief of the characters in the plays. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. An apology for belief; 2. An anatomy of believing; 3. Feeling your knowledge 4. Genre, or the tipping point; 5. Person 6. Plot - or, the promised end; 7. Place; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Mceachern, Claire (University of California McEachern, McEachern Claire
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108422246
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42224-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights