Shakespeare and Religious Change

Acknowledgments Note on Spelling Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction: K.J.E.Graham PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND SOCIAL HISTORY: RELIGION AND THE SECULAR Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy of Errors; R.Strier 'In a Christian Climate': Religion and Honor in Richard II; D.Shuger PART II: DRAMATIC CONTINUITIES AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE William Cecil and the Drama of Persuasion; A.F.Johnston The Queen's Men and the Performance of Allegiance, Conformity, and Difference in Elizabethan Norwich; M.A.Blackstone Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare's Plays; E.Williamson Staging Allegiance, Re-membering Trials: King Henry VIII and the Blackfriars Theater; K.Sawyer Marsalek PART III: RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES 'Mirth in Heaven': Religion and Festivity in As You Like It; P.Jensen Speaking Daggers: Shakespeare's Troubled Ministers; G.Clark Othello in the Wilderness: How did Shakespeare Use his Bible?; T.Bishop PART IV: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CHANGING THEATRE: RELIGION OR THE SECULAR Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare's Histories; J.Knapp The Secular Theater; A.B.Dawson Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349303364
• ISBN13: 9781349303366
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"