Shakespearean Resurrection: The Art of Almost Raising the Dead

by Sean Benson

This engaging book demonstrates Shakespeare's abiding interest in the theatrical potential of the Christian resurrection from the dead. In fourteen of Shakespeare's plays, characters who have been lost, sometimes for years, suddenly reappear seemingly returning from the dead. In the classical recognition scene, such moments are explained away in naturalistic terms a character was lost at sea but survived, or abducted and escaped, and so on. Shakespeare...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820704164
• ISBN13: 9780820704166
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"