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Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

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Editors:
David Loewenstein, Pennsylvania State University
Michael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore, David Bevington, Peter Marshall, Felicity Heal, Alison Shell, Beatrice Groves, Peter Lake, Adrian Streete, Ewan Fernie, Richard McCoy, Paul Stevens, Michael Davies, Matthew Dimmock, Brian Cummings

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Date Published: October 2018
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108733663

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Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies, early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern history.
- Offers interdisciplinary perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern religion from both literary scholars and historians, appealing to a broad range of readers
- Illuminates the ways in which Shakespeare's plays represent a wide variety of religious beliefs and practices, also revealing a dynamic interaction between religious and secular issues in the plays
- Connects religious issues in Shakespeare's plays with political and national ones, illuminating religious belief, politics and national identity in early modern England
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'Full of gems, this collection provides a highly productive juxtaposition of historical and literary scholarship.' Thomas Fulton, Renaissance Quarterly
'Hoping to reach both specialists in the field and a more general audience, David Loewenstein and Michael Witmore have edited a wonderfully varied set of fourteen essays by accomplished literary scholars and historians, many of whom have already published books and articles on Shakespeare and religion.' Arthur F. Marotti, Shakespeare Studies
'The editors' approach to their topic - their avoidance of polemic and generalization both - issues in all sorts of fascinating gems.' Peter Holbrook, Shakespeare Quarterly
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Product details
- Date Published: October 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108733663
- length: 329 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction David Loewenstein and Michael Witmore
Part I. Revisiting Religious Contexts in Shakespeare's England:
1. The debate about Shakespeare and religion David Bevington
2. Choosing sides and talking religion in Shakespeare's England Peter Marshall
3. Experiencing religion in London: diversity and choice in Shakespeare's metropolis Felicity Heal
Part II. Representing Religious Beliefs and Diversity in the Plays:
4. Delusion in A Midsummer Night's Dream Alison Shell
5. The siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in King John Beatrice Groves
6. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the search for a usable (Christian?) past Peter Lake
7. Lucretius, Calvin, and natural law in Measure for Measure Adrian Streete
8. Agnostic Shakespeare?: the God-less world of King Lear David Loewenstein
9. 'Another Golgotha' Ewan Fernie
10. Shakespeare and wisdom literature Michael Witmore
11. Awakening faith in The Winter's Tale Richard McCoy
12. Hamlet, Henry VIII, and the question of religion: a post-secular perspective Paul Stevens
13. Converting Henry: truth, history, and historical faith in Henry VIII Michael Davies
14. Shakespeare's non-Christian religions Matthew Dimmock
Afterword Brian Cummings.
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Editors
David Loewenstein, Pennsylvania State University
David Loewenstein is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor and author of many publications, including John Milton, Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education (2013), Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2013), The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (coeditor, Cambridge, 2002), and Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism (Cambridge, 2001) which won a James Holly Hanford Distinguished Book Award.
Michael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Michael Witmore is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. He is the author of Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare (with Rosamond Purcell, 2010), Shakespearean Metaphysics (2008), and Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance (2007). He is also the editor of Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550–1800 (with Andrea Immel, 2006).
Contributors
David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore, David Bevington, Peter Marshall, Felicity Heal, Alison Shell, Beatrice Groves, Peter Lake, Adrian Streete, Ewan Fernie, Richard McCoy, Paul Stevens, Michael Davies, Matthew Dimmock, Brian Cummings