This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connections between Shakespeare's theatre and the religious past, the religious identities of the present and the deep cultural changes that would shape the future of religion in the modern world. INDICE: Acknowledgments - Note on Spelling Conventions - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: K.J.E.Graham - PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND SOCIAL HISTORY: RELIGION AND THE SECULAR - Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of TheComedy of Errors; R.Strier - 'In a Christian Climate': Religion and Honor in Richard II; D.Shuger - PART II: DRAMATIC CONTINUITIES AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE - William Cecil and the Drama of Persuasion; A.F.Johnston - The Queen's Men and the Performance of Allegiance, Conformity, and Difference in Elizabethan Norwich; M.A.Blackstone - Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare's Plays; E.Williamson - Staging Allegiance, Re-membering Trials: King Henry VIII and the Blackfriars Theater; K.Sawyer Marsalek - PART III: RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES - 'Mirth in Heaven': Religion and Festivity in As You Like It ; P.Jensen - Speaking Daggers: Shakespeare's Troubled Ministers; G.Clark - Othello in the Wilderness: How did Shakespeare Use his Bible?; T.Bishop - PART IV: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CHANGING THEATRE: RELIGION OR THE SECULAR - Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare's Histories; J.Knapp - The Secular Theater; A.B.Dawson - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21309-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 16/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés