Title Believing in Shakespeare : studies in longing / Claire McEachern, University of California, Los Angeles

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) Contents Preface -- Part I. Believing. An apology for belief; Part II. An anatomy of believing. In Shakespeare; Feeling your knowledge; Genre, or the tupping point -- Part III. Person, plot, place. Person: Shakespeare's reformed characters; Plot, or the promised end; Place: location, location, location -- Epilogue Summary This ground breaking and accessible study explores the connections between the English Reformation's impact on the belief in eternal salvation and how it affected ways of believing in the plays of Shakespeare. Claire McEachern examines the new and better faith that Protestantism imagined for itself, a faith in which scepticism did not erode belief, but worked to substantiate it in ways that were both affectively positive and empirically positivist. Concluding with in-depth readings of Richard II, King Lear and The Tempest, the book represents a markedly fresh intervention in the topic of Shakespeare and religion. With great originality, McEachern argues that the English reception of the Calvinist imperative to 'know with' God allowed the very nature of literary involvement to change, transforming feeling for a character into feeling with one Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion. SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject Protestantism and literature -- History Belief and doubt in literature. Faith in literature. Empathy in literature. Drama -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Religion in literature. Nurturing behavior in literature. DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Nurturing behavior in literature Belief and doubt in literature Drama -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Empathy in literature Faith in literature Protestantism and literature Religion Religion in literature Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108397070 1108397077 9781108381314 1108381316 1108380735 9781108380737

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