Spiritual Shakespeares

Name: Spiritual Shakespeares
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ISBN: 9780415319676

ISBN-10: 0415319676

ISBN-13: 9780415319676

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ewan Fernie

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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in secular materialism, theology, or contemporary theory. That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show." John D. Caputo (from the foreword) "Readers will find here an engagement with both Shakespeare and spirituality which is intelligent, original, and challengingly optimistic, one which surely succeeds in its wish to "reinvigorate and strengthen politically progressive materialist criticism." Jonathan Dollimore (from the afterword) Spiritual Shakespearesis the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Ewan Fernie is Professor and Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Shame in Shakespeare , the editor ofnbsp; Spiritual Shakespeares and general editor (with Simon Palfrey) of the Shakespeare Now! series .



List of contributors


General editor's preface


Acknowledgements


Foreword: of hyper-reality



Introduction: Shakespeare, spirituality and contemporary criticism




'Where hope is coldest': All's Well That Ends Well




Harry's (in)human face




Waiting for Gobbo




'Salving the mail': perjury, grace and the disorder of things in Love's Labour's Lost




The Shakespearean fetish




Bottom's secret...




Spectres of Hamlet




The last act: presentism, spirituality and the politics of Hamlet



Afterword



Bibliography