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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461405803321

Autore

Mallin Eric Scott

Titolo

Godless Shakespeare / / Eric S. Mallin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2007

ISBN

1-4725-5494-9

1-283-12314-2

9786613123145

1-4411-9428-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Collana

Shakespeare now!

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Atheism in literature

Religion and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-128) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1. Hell -- God's bitch (Pericles) -- The promise (Friar Laurence) -- Vienna sausage : or, replacement theology (Isabella) -- Crackers (Titus) -- Pt. 2. Purgatory -- Conspicuously failed Christ figures named Antonio (Antonio and others) -- The profit-driven life (Portia) -- Moon changes (Katherina) -- Happy suicide (Hamlet) -- It is required (Leontes and audience) -- A winter's fable (Lear) -- Pt. 3. Heaven -- Aaron ascendant (Aaron) -- The life to come (Macbeth) -- Dreams of sex and death (Bottom) -- Her becomings (Cleopatra).

Sommario/riassunto

Godless Shakespeare is the first book to discuss Shakespeare's plays from an atheist perspective.   Although it is clear that Shakespeare engaged with and deployed much of his culture's broadly religious interests - his language is shot through with biblical quotations, priestly sermonizing and Christian imagery - Mallin argues that there is a profound absence of or hostility to God in his plays. Following Dante's three part structure for The Divine Comedy - Hell represents expressions of religious faith in Shakespeare's plays, Purgatory sets out more sceptical positions, and Heaven shows arti