Spiritual ShakespearesEwan Fernie 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. |
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... criticism'. Jonathan Dollimore (from the Afterword) 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 ...
... criticism / Ewan Fernie – 'Where hope is coldest': All's well that ends well / Kiernan Ryan – Harry's (in)human face / David Ruiter – Waiting for Gobbo / Lowell Gallagher – 'Salving the mail': perjury, grace, and the disorder of things ...
... criticism EWAN FERNIE 1. 'Where hope is coldest': All's Well That Ends Well KIERNAN RYAN 2. Harry's (in)human face DAVID RUITER 3. Waiting for Gobbo LOWELL GALLAGHER 4. 'Salving the mail' Perjury, grace and the disorder of things in ...
... critics and scholars since the Second World War: a tendency that has perhaps reached its climax in more recent movements such as 'New Historicism' or 'Cultural Materialism'. A consideration of the conditions (social, political or ...
... critics of realism and essentialism, as they certainly are, still it brushes against the grain to call them (simply) “anti-realists,” if that is taken to connote any kind of vicious subjectivism. For the truth is that by and large ...
Contents
Alls Well That Ends Well | |
Harrys inhuman face | |
Waiting for Gobbo | |
Salving the mail Perjury grace and the disorder of things in Loves Labours | |
The Shakespearean fetish | |