The God Within The Mystery Of The Divine In Shakespeares Plays

Author : Austin Gragg
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668116636
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God Within. The Mystery of the Divine in Shakespeare's Plays written by Austin Gragg and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: In the works of William Shakespeare there is often times an air of mystery often equated to forces of occult powers. It is my belief that the mystery conveyed through his plays is not mere tricks to entice an audience. Rather his methods involved a comprehensive understanding not only of human nature, but also of forces of higher powers. These powers are often talked about in religious studies and would have been known to most as “God”. So for the purpose of this essay we will think of God as a force rather than a being, a total and comprehensive all pervasive weaving in the fabric of time. To the person uneducated in the occult powers, it is easy to see the outrageous pieces of his art as magic. Which is like the ultimate cop out, just throwing away its value and meaning to the wind. To read Shakespeare is to feel Shakespeare, not some rational understanding. To read Shakespeare is to transport from the ephemeral material world to the eternal realm of spiritual eternity. The sense that this brings to mind is where the aesthetic pleasure of reading Shakespeare envelops the world. It is why we are still reading Shakespeare today and will continue to do so for quite some time. But to know time is to exist on a different plane than Shakespeare inhabited. For Shakespeare’s world was that of the eternal due to a super conscious understanding of the Divine. More than likely these forces were working through him because he had found a way to open himself up to the muses in order to become a muse himself. In other words we are mere fools in time and Shakespeare suffered greatly to give the world a piece of himself.

Author : Robert G. Hunter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338540
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments written by Robert G. Hunter and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert G. Hunter maintains that the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the Elizabethan mind was in great part responsible for the emergence of the outstanding tragedies of the age. Luther and Calvin caused men to ask how God can be just if man is not free, and Shakespeare's greatest tragedies confront the vexing problems posed by these altered conceptions of man's freedom of will and God's providential control of natural circumstance. Shakespeare's audiences were not single-minded. He wrote for semi-Pelagians, Augustinians, Calvinists, and men and women who did not know what to think. Confl icting certainties, doubts, and uncertainties were his raw material, both within his mind and the minds of the audience. Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God's judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He notes that Shakespeare's different viewpoints are the heart of the tragedies themselves. Even after Shakespeare's imaginative considerations of the mysteries, the tragedies seem to consistently provide questions rather than answers, and what they inspire in their beholders is more likely to be doubt than faith.

Author : Beatrice Batson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527565475
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciliation in Selected Shakespearean Dramas written by Beatrice Batson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the rich complexity of the term, reconciliation, as depicted by Shakespeare in selected dramas. The study declares the term’s biblical and theological basis and asserts that it is also a prominent word in social and political discourse. Some contributors to this volume connect reconciliation to justification and atonement before God through Christ’s death; others see the interrelations between the state and the religious character of its ruler; others unfold the need for reconciliation between one person and another or one group of persons and another, while other contributors include the thematic narrative significance of the term.

Author : Grace R. W. Hall
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tempest as Mystery Play written by Grace R. W. Hall and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison of Shakespeare's works to their likely sources is one way to deepen our appreciation. Sources for The Tempest, however, have long eluded the grasp of scholars, who have unearthed only bits and pieces that resemble minor elements of the play. Few traces of the special qualities of The Tempest have turned up in any works so far considered as sources. This author is the first to identify a strong biblical basis for The Tempest. Further, she demonstrates that the play's use of biblical imagery, characters, and concepts echo the way these elements were interpreted in the English Mystery Plays. Thus Hall is able to trace the links between The Tempest and the best known religious works of Elizabethan society: the Bible, the Mystery Plays, and the 1559 Book of Common Prayer. These links reveal The Tempest as a profoundly spiritual work, allowing the modern reader to experience the play as a harmonious religious vision.

Author : William R. Elton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161304
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Lear and the Gods written by William R. Elton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many critics hold that Shakespeare's King Lear is primarily a drama of meaningful suffering and redemption within a just universe ruled by providential higher powers. William Elton's King Lear and the Gods challenges the validity of this widespread optimistic view. Testing the prevailing view against the play's acknowledged sources, and analyzing the functions of the double plot, the characters, and the play's implicit ironies, Elton concludes that this standard interpretation constitutes a serious misreading of the tragedy.

Author : William B. Toole
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111392228
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's problem plays written by William B. Toole and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul N. Siegel
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838632512
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays written by Paul N. Siegel and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Shakespearean drama's Christian overtones, explaining why they have been ignored for so long and how those overtones can influence one's interpretation of Shakespeare's work.

Author : Greg Maillet
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443812935
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to See the Theological Vision of Shakespeare's King Lear written by Greg Maillet and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, and builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views. While noticing biography, the focus of this book is upon the onstage action of King Lear, arguing that its ‘theodicy’ can be understood as the expansion of theological vision. The book makes this argument by drawing on an approach to literature known as ‘theological aesthetics,’ an approach pioneered by Hans Urs Von Balthasar. Engaging with not only W.R. Elton, but also other Shakespeare scholars such as Jan Kott and Kenneth Muir, it combines theological argument, performance criticism, and dramatic analysis to argue for a theological reading of King Lear.

Author : Sarah Dewar-Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309729
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragedy written by Sarah Dewar-Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy is one of the oldest and most revered forms of literature in the western world. Over the centuries, tragedy has shown a tremendous capacity to reinvent itself, often emerging at crucial moments in the evolution of cultural, political and intellectual history. Not only is tragedy marked by its diversity, the critical literature surrounding the genre is equally diverse. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive introduction to the key criticism and debates on tragedy, from Aristotle through to the present day. Sarah Dewar-Watson presents the work of canonical theorists and lesser-known but, nonetheless, influential critics, bringing together a strong sense of the critical tradition and an awareness of current scholarly trends. Stimulating and engaging, this essential resource helps students to navigate their way around the subject of tragedy and its rich critical terrain.

Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860016
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power written by John D. Cox and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.