Shakespeare’s Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth
Overview
This volume explores the influence of Catholicism and Protestantism on a trio of Shakespeare’s tragedies: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Bypassing the discussion of Shakespeare’s personal religious beliefs, Batson instead focuses on distinct footprints left by Catholic and Protestant traditions that underlie and inform Shakespeare’s artistic genius.
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- Explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism on Shakespeare’s tragedies
- Discusses how Christian language and ideas important to the tragedies
- Contains essays from Shakespearean experts
- “Meta-drama in Hamlet and Macbeth,” by Peter Milward
- “Explores of the Revelation: Spenser and Shakespeare,” by David Daniell
- “The Problem of Self-Love in Shakespeare’s Tragedies and in Renaissance and Reformation Theology,” by Robert Lanier Reid
- “‘I Could Not Say “Amen’”:Prayer and Providence in Macbeth,” by Robert S. Miola
- “Hamlet and Protestant Aural Theater,” by Grace Tiffany
- “Providence in Julius Caesar,” by John W. Mahon
- “Cobbling Souls in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,” Maurice Hunt
The cultural air of Elizabethan England was thick with theological discourse, yet Shakespeare has often been read as if he hovered above it all in a sublime cocoon of pure art. This stimulating collection of smart essays demonstrates not only that Shakespeare was theologically informed but also that Christian language and concepts were integral to the design of his major tragedies. The formidable contributors enable us to hear lost echoes of Scripture and sermon, polemic, and Prayer Book that reverberate in nearly every scene.
—Peter Leithart, adjunct senior fellow of theology, New St. Andrews College
- Title: Shakespeare’s Christianity: Catholic-Protestant Presence in Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth
- Author: Beatrice Batson
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2006
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 150
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 › Religion; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 › Julius Caesar; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 › Hamlet; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 › Macbeth; Catholic Church › In literature; Protestantism and literature › History--16th century; Protestantism and literature › History--17th century
- ISBNs: 9781602581081, 9781280705205, 9781932792362, 1602581088, 1280705205, 1932792368
- Resource ID: LLS:SHKSPRSCHRSTNTY
- Resource Type: Monograph
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