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A Will to Believe - Shakespeare and Religion (Hardcover, New)
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A Will to Believe - Shakespeare and Religion (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures
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Total price: R1,252
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On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of
Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked,
What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded?
I should say, religion. If, What is the second? I should say,
religion. If, What the third? I should still say, religion." But if
religion was recognized as the "chief thing in a Commonwealth," we
have been less certain what it does in Shakespeare's plays. Written
and performed in a culture in which religion was indeed
inescapable, the plays have usually been seen either as evidence of
Shakespeare's own disinterested secularism or, more recently, as
coded signposts to his own sectarian commitments. Based upon the
inaugural series of the Oxford-Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2008,
A Will to Believe offers a thoughtful, surprising, and often moving
consideration of how religion actually functions in them: not as
keys to Shakespeare's own faith but as remarkably sensitive
registers of the various ways in which religion charged the world
in which he lived. The book shows what we know and can't know about
Shakespeare's own beliefs, and demonstrates, in a series of
wonderfully alert and agile readings, how the often fraught and
vertiginous religious environment of Post-Reformation England gets
refracted by the lens of Shakespeare's imagination.
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