| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Part I. Believing. An apology for belief; Part II. An anatomy of believing. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxx96qPfyhwWrJChP9kXd |
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Protestantism and literature -- History.
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Belief and doubt in literature.
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Faith in literature.
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Empathy in literature.
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Drama -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Religion in literature.
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Nurturing behavior in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Nurturing behavior in literature |
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Belief and doubt in literature |
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Drama -- Religious aspects -- Christianity |
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Empathy in literature |
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Faith in literature |
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Protestantism and literature |
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Religion |
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Religion in literature |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McEachern, Claire, 1963- Believing in Shakespeare. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781108422246 (DLC) 2017055398 (OCoLC)1019835281 |
| ISBN |
9781108397070 (electronic bk.) |
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1108397077 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108381314 |
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1108381316 |
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9781108422246 |
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1108422241 |
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9781108435017 (paperback) |
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1108380735 |
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9781108380737 |
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