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Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

by David Loewenstein (Editor), David Loewenstein (Editor)

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Synopsis

Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies, early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern history.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 330
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 25 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1108733662
ISBN 13: 9781108733663

Media Reviews
'Full of gems, this collection provides a highly productive juxtaposition of historical and literary scholarship.' Thomas Fulton, Renaissance Quarterly
Author Bio
David Loewenstein is Helen C. White Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the editor and author of many publications, including John Milton, Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education (2013), Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2013), The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (coeditor, Cambridge, 2002), and Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism (Cambridge, 2001) which won a James Holly Hanford Distinguished Book Award. Michael Witmore is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. He is the author of Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare (with Rosamond Purcell, 2010), Shakespearean Metaphysics (2008), and Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance (2007). He is also the editor of Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (with Andrea Immel, 2006).