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Title
Spiritual Shakespeares
Subject
Arts, Language & Literature
Description
Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’.
Exploring a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Amongst its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism.
Reaching across and beyond literary studies to offer challenging and powerful contributions from leading scholars, this book offers unique readings of some very familiar plays.
Exploring a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Amongst its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism.
Reaching across and beyond literary studies to offer challenging and powerful contributions from leading scholars, this book offers unique readings of some very familiar plays.
Creator
Edited By Ewan Fernie
Source
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780203625491/spiritual-shakespeares-ewan-fernie?context=ubx&refId=6e700899-ad13-444c-b956-8efb3983a104
Publisher
Routledge
Date
23 August 2005
Contributor
Guruh Haris Raputra
Rights
Creative Commons
Format
Pdf
Language
English
Type
Textbooks
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203625491