02960nam 22006491 450 991082610890332120200514202323.01-4725-5494-91-283-12314-297866131231451-4411-9428-210.5040/9781472554949(CKB)2670000000093531(EBL)711069(OCoLC)727649574(SSID)ssj0000522954(PQKBManifestationID)12222972(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522954(PQKBWorkID)10539150(PQKB)10645001(MiAaPQ)EBC711069(Au-PeEL)EBL711069(CaPaEBR)ebr10472198(CaONFJC)MIL312314(OCoLC)1057394228(UkLoBP)bpp09256879(EXLCZ)99267000000009353120140929d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGodless Shakespeare /Eric S. MallinLondon ;New York :Continuum,2007.1 online resource (145 p.)Shakespeare now!Description based upon print version of record.0-8264-9041-7 0-8264-9042-5 Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-128) and index.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).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 artiShakespeare now!.Atheism in literatureReligion and literatureAtheism in literature.Religion and literature.822.33Mallin Eric Scott324603UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910826108903321Godless Shakespeare767001UNINA