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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... Cultural Materialism (2nd edn, 1994); Sexual Dissidence; Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture; Sex, Literature and Censorship and Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (3rd ...
... Cultural Materialism: A Reader; Shakespeare: The Last Plays; and Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts. He wrote the Introduction for the New Penguin edition of King Lear (2005), and is currently completing a study of Shakespearean comedy ...
... Cultural Materialism'. A consideration of the conditions (social, political or economic) within which the play came to exist, from which it derives, and to which it speaks, will certainly make legitimate demands on the attention of any ...
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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 | |