A Will to Believe Shakespeare and Religion
A Will to Believe Shakespeare and Religion
- ISBN 13:
9780199572892
- ISBN 10:
0199572895
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 03/09/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Based upon the inaugural series of the Oxford-Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2008, A Will to Believe offers a thoughtful, surprising, and often moving consideration of how religion actually functions in his plays: not as keys to Shakespeare's own faith but as remarkably sensitive registers of the various ways in which religion charged the world in which he lived. The book shows what we know and can't know about Shakespeare's own beliefs and demonstrates, in a series of wonderfully alert and agile readings, how the often fraught and vertiginous religious environment of Post-Reformation England gets refracted by the lens of Shakespeare's imagination.