Shakespeare''s Religious Allusiveness - Its Play and Tolerance

Zusammenfassung Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness complicates debates about whether Shakespeare's plays are fundamentally Protestant or Catholic in sympathy, challenging analyses that either find Protestant elements consistently undercutting Catholic motifs or, less often, discover evidence of the playwright's endorsement of Catholic doctrine and customs Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Catholicism! Protestant Reformation! and The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The hybrid reformations of Shakespeare's second Henriad; Helena and the reformation problem of merit in All's Well That Ends Well; Malvolio! Viola! and the question of instrumentality: defining providence in Twelfth Night; Predestination and the heresy of merit in Othello; Coda; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hunt, Maurice Hunt, Hunt Maurice
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780815397021
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9702-1
• Pagine: 164
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Drammatica; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays