Godless Shakespeare

Godless Shakespeare

by Mallin, Eric Scott

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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 relig…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Godless Shakespeare / Eric S. Mallin.

Summary

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 He.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Continuum
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 132 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781441194282, 1441194282, 9781472554949, 1472554949, 9781441103482, 1441103481
  • DOI:10.5040/9781472554949
  • oclc:ocn738476077
  • LC Classification:PR3011
  • Dewey Decimal:822.33

Table of Contents

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).

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc DRAMA -- Shakespeare Faith in literature Foi dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 RELIGION Shakespeare studies & criticism Shakespeare, William Theology

Writers

Mallin, Eric Scott

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