Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England

Published by Fordham University Press 2004

Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England

Edited by: Dennis Taylor and David N. Beauregard

In the series Studies in Religion and Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296613

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The question of Shakespeare’s Catholic contexts has occupied many scholars in recent years, and their growing body of work has been enriched by revisionist accounts of the Reformation society and culture in which he lived and worked.

This innovative book brings together sixteen original essays by leading scholars who examine Shakespeare’s works in light of this new scholarship: their goal is to explore a possible interpretive consensus from Protestant, Catholic, and secular perspectives.

Offering stimulating new approaches to traditional problems in Shakespeare studies, the essays provide a fully developed picture of Shakespeare’s relation to the Reformation—in the light of newly unearthed religious contexts. From the monastic life in Measure for Measure to Puritanism in Hamlet , the essays offer fresh understandings of such themes as majority cultures, national self-definition, hidden trauma, and concealed identity.

Contributors: Dennis Taylor, Richard Dutton, Katharine Goodland, Clare Asquith, Jean-Christophe Mayer, Timothy Rosendale, Gary D. Hamilton, Regina M. Buccola, John Klause, John Freeman, R. Chris Hassel Jr., Jennifer Rust, David Beauregard, Maurice Hunt, Lisa Hopkins, Richard Mallette, and Paula McQuade.

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Introduction: Shakespeare and the Reformation Dennis Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Apelles: An Exercise in Source Study Richard Dutton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
2 "Obsequious Laments": Mourning and Communal Memory in Shakespeare's Richard III Katharine Goodland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3 Oxford University and Love's Labour's Lost Clare Asquith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
4 Shakespeare's Religious Background Revisited: Richard II in a New Context Jean- Christophe Mayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5 Sacral and Sacramental Kingship in the Lancastrian Tetralogy Timothy Rosendale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
6 Mocking Oldcastle: Notes Toward Exploring a Possible Catholic Presence in Shakespeare's Henriad Gary D. Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7 Shakespeare's Fairy Dance with Religio-Political Controversy in The Merry Wives of Windsor Regina M. Buccola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
8 Catholic and Protestant, Jesuit and Jew: Historical Religion in The Merchant of Venice John Klause Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
9 This Side of Purgatory: Ghostly Fathers and the Recusant Legacy in Hamlet John Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
10 Wittenberg and Melancholic Allegory: The Reformation and Its Discontents in Hamlet jennifer Rust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
11 The Accent and Gait of Christians: Hamlet's Puritan Style R. Chris Hassel Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
12 Shakespeare on Monastic Life: Nuns and Friars in Measure for Measure David Beauregard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
13 Helena and the Reformation Problem of Merit in All's Well That Ends Well Maurice Hunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
14 Paris Is Worth a Mass: All's Well That Ends Well and the Wars of Religion Lisa Hopkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
15 Blasphemous Preacher: Iago and the Reformation Richard Mallette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382
16 Love and Lies: Marital Truth-Telling, Catholic Casuistry, and Othello Paula McQuade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 451

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Published: May 2, 2022
ISBN: 9780823296613