Shakespeare The Papist

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Sapientia Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare the Papist written by Peter Milward and published by Sapientia Classics. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapientia Classics Series Shakespeare, who wrote at the beginning of the long period in which the Catholic faith as violently suppressed in the British Isles, has long enjoyed an iconic status. Some readers have interpreted him as an early agnostic, expressing modern angst about whether anything exists besides "this mortal coil" that seems to be merely "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." In recent years, however, thanks largely to the work of Peter Milward, close study of Shakespeare's plays has raised the question: Was Shakespeare in fact a believing Catholic? To this question, which radically changes the way that Shakespeare's plays should be read, Milward here offers, in his definitive study of the topic, a resounding "Yes."

Author : E. Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Baylor University Press
ISBN 13 : 1932792368
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Christianity written by E. Beatrice Batson and published by Baylor University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Loyola Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Religious Background written by Peter Milward and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586174134
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Shakespeare's Eyes written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Saint Austin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781901157109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays written by Peter Milward and published by Saint Austin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The local tradition in Stratford is that Shakespeare "died a Papist", having sent for a Catholic priest to give him the last rites. It is clear from his plays that he was against the strictures of Puritanism, but in The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays, Professor Peter Milward argues that the whole of Shakespeare's work reveals a common thread of sympathy with the plight of the suffering persecuted Catholics under Queen Elizabeth and King James I.

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719063633
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Religion written by Richard Dutton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : David N. Beauregard
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 0874130026
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays written by David N. Beauregard and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152618415X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Shakespeare written by Richard Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079848
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition) written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

Author : John Waterfield
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440143412
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of His Mystery written by John Waterfield and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare has traditionally been viewed as Queen Elizabeth's 'poet laureate', and as the official mouthpiece of the Elizabethan age. But the Elizabethan world was torn apart by the religious divisions initiated by the Reformation, and vitiated by the government's merciless persecution of Catholics. As it was the victors who wrote the history, the English Reformation has been portrayed as a peaceful transition enjoying majority support, when in fact it was nothing of the kind. Elizabeth's regime was a police state which sanctioned the use of torture, where Catholic priests and those who harboured them were liable to summary and bloody execution. The persecution of Catholics was continued by James I, evoking the violent response of the Gunpowder Plot. The Heart of His Mystery examines Shakespeare's life and work against this background. There is strong biographical evidence that he was himself a Catholic, and a detailed survey of his plays and poems shows that his imagination was intimately bound up with his religious faith. When we realise that his human compassion grew from his membership in a persecuted community, we can glimpse the mystery he has encrypted in his works and we come closer to understanding the hidden heart of Shakespeare the man.