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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation
of Religious Difference explores how Shakespeare's plays dramatize
key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, the conflict between the
sacred, the critical, and the disenchanted; alternatively, the
Catholic, the Protestant, and the secular. Each play imagines their
reconciliation or the failure of reconcilation. The Catholic sacred
is shadowed by its degeneration into superstition, Protestant
critique by its unintended (fissaparous) consequences, the secular
ordinary by stark disenchantment. Shakespeare shows how all three
perspectives are needed if society is to face its intractable
problems, thus providing a powerful model for our own ecumenical
dialogues. Shakespeare begins with history plays contrasting the
saintly but impractical King Henry VI, whose assassination is the
"primal crime," with the pragmatic and secular Henry IV, until
imagining in the later 1590's how Hal can reconnect with sacred
sources. At the same time in his comedies, Shakespeare imagines
cooperative ways of resolving the national "comedy of errors," of
sorting out erotic and marital and contemplative confusions by
applying his triple lens. His late Elizabethan comedies achieve a
polished balance of wit and devotion, ordinary and the sacred, old
and new orders. Hamlet is Shakespeare's ultimate Elizabethan
consideration of these issues, its so-called lack of objective
correlation a response to the unsorted trauma of the Reformation.
Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward
Boxing Trilogy traces the lives and careers of two legendary
fighters-Micky Ward, a humble, hardscrabble, blue-collar Irishman
from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Arturo Gatti, a handsome, flashy,
charismatic Italian-born star who was raised in Montreal. Dennis
Taylor and John J. Raspanti paint a vivid portrait of these two
fighters who ushered each other into boxing lore and formed an
unlikely friendship despite their brutal battles in the ring.
Gatti's life would end tragically and mysteriously just a few years
later, but his name and Ward's remain tied together in boxing
history. In Intimate Warfare, each of the three spectacular fights
between Gatti and Ward, two of which were named The Ring magazine's
"Fight of the Year," are described in detail. Multiple photographs
from the trilogy highlight the intensity and power of these epic
collisions. With a foreword by former world champion and
International Boxing Hall of Famer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, this
book will be of interest to all fans of boxing.
‘I’m an outsider to the end of my days!’ Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furore when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. This edition uses the unbowdlerized text of the first volume edition of 1895, and also includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.
The question of Shakespeareas Catholic contexts has occupied many
scholars in recent years, and their growing body of work has been
enriched by revisionist accounts of the Reformation society and
culture in which he lived and worked. This innovative book brings
together sixteen original essays by leading scholars who examine
Shakespeareas works in light of this new scholarship: their goal is
to explore a possible interpretive consensus from Protestant,
Catholic, and secular perspectives. Offering stimulating new
approaches to traditional problems in Shakespeare studies, the
essays provide a fully developed picture of Shakespeareas relation
to the Reformationain the light of newly unearthed religious
contexts. From the monastic life in Measure for Measure to
Puritanism in Hamlet, the essays offer fresh understandings of such
themes as majority cultures, national self-definition, hidden
trauma, and concealed identity. The contributors: Dennis Taylor,
Richard Dutton, Katharine Goodland, Clare Asquith, Jean-Christophe
Mayer, Timothy Rosendale, Gary D. Hamilton, Regina M. Buccola, John
Klause, John Freeman, R. Chris Hassel Jr., Jennifer Rust, David
Beauregard, Maurice Hunt, Lisa Hopkins, Richard Mallette, and Paula
McQuade.
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