Believing in Shakespeare : Studies in Longing
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108422241
ISBN-13
9781108422246
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 19th, 2018
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
600 grams
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23.50 x 15.80 x 2.10 cms
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This book provides a historically sensitive account of the invention of suspense in Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with Protestant thought, and how the belief of an audience in a play functions in relation to the belief of the characters in the plays.
This ground breaking 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 scepticism 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.
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