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Shakespeare's Tribe (Paperback, New Ed)
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Shakespeare's Tribe (Paperback, New Ed)
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Most contemporary critics characterize Shakespeare and his tribe of
fellow playwrights and players as resolutely secular, interested in
religion only as a matter of politics or as a rival source of
popular entertainment. Yet as Jeffrey Knapp demonstrates in this
radical new reading, a surprising number of writers throughout the
English Renaissance, including Shakespeare himself, represented
plays as supporting the cause of true religion.
To be sure, Renaissance playwrights rarely sermonized in their
plays, which seemed preoccupied with sex, violence, and crime.
During a time when acting was regarded as a kind of vice, many
theater professionals used their apparent godlessness to advantage,
claiming that it enabled them to save wayward souls the church
could not otherwise reach. The stage, they argued, made possible an
ecumenical ministry, which would help transform Reformation England
into a more inclusive Christian society.
Drawing on a variety of little-known as well as celebrated plays,
along with a host of other documents from the English Renaissance,
"Shakespeare's Tribe" changes the way we think about Shakespeare
and the culture that produced him.
Winner of the Best Book in Literature and Language from the
Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly
division, the Conference on Christianity and Literature Book Award,
and the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth
Century Society and Conference.
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