Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and HamletE. Beatrice Batson This volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in 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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... play's enduring par- adox is that it is itself composed not only of words but of a series of exciting spectacles , including a ghost's several appearances , a reenacted poisoning , and a fast - paced contest with rapiers . Throughout the ...
... play's enduring par- adox is that it is itself composed not only of words but of a series of exciting spectacles , including a ghost's several appearances , a reenacted poisoning , and a fast - paced contest with rapiers . Throughout the ...
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... play , " Hamlet " articulates the qualities of an ideal Protestant theater . " 32 Such a theater displaces ocular ... play's spoken dimension . Hamlet's particular addition to the play will be a " speech of some dozen ... or sixteen ...
... play , " Hamlet " articulates the qualities of an ideal Protestant theater . " 32 Such a theater displaces ocular ... play's spoken dimension . Hamlet's particular addition to the play will be a " speech of some dozen ... or sixteen ...
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... play's dangerous capacity to decline from didactic exercise to spectacular entertainment . Hence Hamlet's first interruption comes early , following the unwel- come dumb show that precedes the spoken play . This dumb show , which ...
... play's dangerous capacity to decline from didactic exercise to spectacular entertainment . Hence Hamlet's first interruption comes early , following the unwel- come dumb show that precedes the spoken play . This dumb show , which ...
Contents
Spenser and Shakespeare | 19 |
The Problem of SelfLove in Shakespeares Tragedies | 35 |
Hamlet and Protestant Aural Theater | 73 |
Copyright | |
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