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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... things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in secular materialism, theology, or contemporary theory. That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show. John D. Caputo (from the Foreword) Readers ...
... things in Love's labour's lost / Philippa Berry – The Shakespearean fetish / Lisa Freinkel – Bottom's secret / John J. Joughin – Spectres of Hamlet / Richard Kearney – The last act: presentism, spirituality, and the politics of Hamlet ...
... things in Love's Labour's Lost PHILIPPA BERRY 5. The Shakespearean fetish LISA FREINKEL 6. Bottom's secret ... JOHN J. JOUGHIN 7. Spectres of Hamlet RICHARD KEARNEY 8. The last act Presentism, spirituality and the politics of Hamlet ...
... God's, allowing many flowers to bloom. If God is dead, a funny thing happened on the way to the funeral. A profusion of new gods was born. The ancients invested a considerable effort trying to convince us Foreword: of hyper-reality CAPUTO.
... 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.
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 | |