Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance

ISBN-13: 9781138620544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Maurice Hunt

Opis

This text includes 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. 

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Maurice Hunt is Research Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Shakespeare's Romance of the Word (1990), Shakespeare's Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (1995), Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness (2004), and Shakespeare's Speculative Art (2011).