Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics - Rilegato

Gleckman, Jason

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ISBN 10: 9813295988 ISBN 13: 9789813295988

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Riassunto

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era – (double) predestination, conversion, and free will – it demonstrates how Protestant theologians, in England and elsewhere, re-imagined these longstanding Christian concepts from a specifically Protestant perspective.  Shakespeare utilizes these insights to generate his distinctive view of human nature and the relationship between humans and God.   Through in-depth readings of the Shakespeare comedies ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and ‘Twelfth Night’, the romance ‘A Winter’s Tale’, and the tragedies of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’, this book examines the results of almost a century of Protestant thought upon literary art.

       

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jason Gleckman is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He has published essays on William Shakespeare, Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, and Thomas Wyatt.  This is his first book.

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This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era – (double) predestination, conversion, and free will – it demonstrates how Protestant theologians, in England and elsewhere, re-imagined these longstanding Christian concepts from a specifically Protestant perspective.  Shakespeare utilizes these insights to generate his distinctive view of human nature and the relationship between humans and God.   Through in-depth readings of the Shakespeare comedies ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and ‘Twelfth Night’, the romance ‘A Winter’s Tale’, and the tragedies of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’, this book examines the results of almost a century of Protestant thought upon literary art.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9813295988
• ISBN 13: 9789813295988
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 383
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile