Godless Shakespeare / / Eric S. Mallin

• Autore: Mallin Eric Scott
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.33
• Soggetto topico: Atheism in literature; Religion and literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Godless Shakespeare
• ISBN: 1-4725-5494-9; 1-283-12314-2; 9786613123145; 1-4411-9428-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461405803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Shakespeare now!.