- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 317 pages)
- Summary
- This volume freshly illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs, practices and issues, and their representation in Shakespeare's plays.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 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.
- ISBN
- 9781316247372
- 1316247376
- 9781139208147
- 1139208144
- 9781316249277
- 1316249271
- OCLC
- 898770437
- Title
Shakespeare and early modern religion / edited by David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
©2015
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Print version record.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1500-1699
- Added Author
Loewenstein, David, editor.
Witmore, Michael, editor.
- Other Form:
Print version: Shakespeare and early modern religion. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107026612 (DLC) 2014044212 (OCoLC)887855894