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Believing in Shakespeare : studies in longing
- Title
- Believing in Shakespeare : studies in longing / Claire McEachern.
- Author
- McEachern, Claire, 1963-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 324 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Believing in Shakespeare Studies in Longing--This groundbreaking and accessible study explores the connections between the English Reformation's impact on the belief in eternal salvation and how it affected ways of believing in the plays of Shakespeare. Claire McEachern examines the new and better faith that Protestantism imagined for itself, a faith in which skepticism did not erode belief, but worked to substantiate it in ways that were both affectively positive and empirically positivist. Concluding with in-depth readings of Richard II, King Lear and The Tempest, the book represents a markedly fresh intervention in the topic of Shakespeare and religion. With great originality, McEachern argues that the English reception of the Calvinist imperative to 'know with' God allowed the very nature of literary involvement to change, transforming feeling for a character into feeling with one" --
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Religion
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Protestantism and literature > History
- Belief and doubt in literature
- Faith in literature
- Empathy in literature
- Religion and drama > Christianity
- Religion in literature
- Drama > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Protestantism and literature
- Religion
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Part I. Believing. An apology for belief -- An anatomy of believing -- Part II. In Shakespeare. Feeling your knowledge -- Genre, or the tupping point -- Part III. Person, plot, place. Person : Shakespeare's reformed characters -- Plot, or the promised end -- Place : location, location, location -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7725
- ISBN
- 9781108422246
- 1108422241
- LCCN
- 2017055398
- 40028319770
- 40028300806
- OCLC
- 1019835281
- Author
- McEachern, Claire, 1963- author.
- Title
- Believing in Shakespeare : studies in longing / Claire McEachern.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 4002831977040028300806
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7725