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Hamlet's Choice : Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies /
An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE TITUS ANDRONICUS
- 1 Succession and confessional politics combined
- 2 Tyranny delineated
- Tyranny as a conspiracy (of evil counsel)
- Beyond evil counsel
- Bad Queen Bess?
- From tyranny to resistance
- 3 Beyond paganism and politics
- Providential endings, political means
- Atheism and its opposites
- PART TWO HAMLET
- 4 Hamlet with the confessional and succession politics left in
- The topical matrix: dynastic politics gets personal
- The topical matrix and providential politics
- The topical matrix and confessional politics
- The topical matrix and religious politics
- 5 The generic matrix Revenge tragedy, history play, murder pamphlet and conversion narrative
- Revenge tragedy and history play
- The murder pamphlet
- The conversion narrative
- 6 The (providential) purposes of playing
- ' The purpose of playing' anatomized
- 7 The politics of conscience
- Talking like an atheist and acting like a Christian
- Putting religion before politics: Hamlet as minister, not scourge
- Delaying to do what, exactly?
- Providence
- Hamlet's other half: Laertes and the resort to politics
- Resolution(s)
- 8 Contemporary resonances
- Catholic/Protestant/Christian
- Predestination
- Conclusion Pagan/Catholic/Protestant/Christian
- Notes
- Further reading
- Index