عنوان

Catholic-Protestant controversy and the Shakespearean stage :

شماره

TLets809697

عنوان اصلي

Catholic-Protestant controversy and the Shakespearean stage :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Cattell, Daniel Charles

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

the play of polemic

نام ساير پديدآوران

Edwards, Karen

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Exeter

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2012

متن يادداشت

Shakespeare's career in the theatre coincides with the ascendancy of Catholic-Protestant polemic, a body of writing that exerted a deep and pervasive influence on literate life in early modern England. Eroding a secularizing bias within the academy, the much heralded turn to religion in the discipline has already covered ample ground in repositioning Shakespeare in relation to the religious cultures of his age. But if such criticism is no longer the preserve of parti pris commentators, Shakespeare's plays have yet to be fully explored through the particular breed of antagonistic writing that emerged during the Reformation and eventually contributed to the period's self-styling as the "scribbling age." Placing drama within this neglected field of enquiry, I reveal the importance the modes and preoccupations of such controversial writing had for the evolving shape and content of Shakespeare's art. The four plays considered here illuminate the subtlety and sophistication with which Catholic-Protestant polemic permeates the theatre; but they also demonstrate that theatre could in turn permeate polemic, hijacking and radically altering its concerns or critiquing its values and assumptions as a practice. King John, 1 Henry IV, Hamlet, and Henry VIII are all marked by cultures of religious scribbling, but in strikingly different ways. By charting changes to these configurations across such a chronology, we can grasp how the plays loosely move from a tentative, experimental approach to polemic to a greater assuredness in its repudiation, developments with important implications for piecing together Shakespeare's development as a reader and writer.

موضوع مستند نشده

Shakespeare; Polemic; Early Modern Drama; Religion

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

University of Exeter

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Edwards, Karen

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Exeter

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y