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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... play can scarcely supply the grounding for an adequate response to its complex demands. For this reason, a transfer of emphasis from 'text' towards 'context' has increasingly been the concern of critics and scholars since the Second ...
... a democracy to come! And yet the point here, let us recall, is not to fit Shakespeare into any preestablished theory but to shush the philosophers and make them listen to the play because the play's the thing, die Sache selbst, in which.
Ewan Fernie. because the play's the thing, die Sache selbst, in which the whole of life has been concentrated. Shakespeare knows that our lives are haunted by shades and shadows of the dead who remind us of what they expect, that they ...
... plays, one that may be illuminated by, but remains irreducible to, any established theory or theology. Although it draws ... play their part in what follows, but the collection also has critical and theoretical claims to make about ...
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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 | |