{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-elizabethan-reformation-literary-negotiation-of-religious-difference-9781666902082","title":"Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference explores how Shakespeare’s plays dramatize key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, the conflict between the sacred, the critical, and the disenchanted; alternatively, the Catholic, the Protestant, and the secular. Each play imagines their reconciliation or the failure of reconcilation. The Catholic sacred is shadowed by its degeneration into superstition, Protestant critique by its unintended (fissaparous) consequences, the secular ordinary by stark disenchantment. Shakespeare shows how all three perspectives are needed if society is to face its intractable problems, thus providing a powerful model for our own ecumenical dialogues. Shakespeare begins with history plays contrasting the saintly but impractical King Henry VI, whose assassination is the ”primal crime,” with the pragmatic and secular Henry IV, until imagining in the later 1590’s how Hal can reconnect with sacred sources. At the same time in his comedies, Shakespeare imagines cooperative ways of resolving the national ”comedy of errors,” of sorting out erotic and marital and contemplative confusions by applying his triple lens. His late Elizabethan comedies achieve a polished balance of wit and devotion, ordinary and the sacred, old and new orders. Hamlet is Shakespeare’s ultimate Elizabethan consideration of these issues, its so-called lack of objective correlation a response to the unsorted trauma of the Reformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magisterial study of Shakespeare's plays, adept and inclusive, in their navigation through the various currents, Catholic, Protestant, and secular of the English Reformation. A rich and indispensable landmark.\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Beauregard, Emeritus Church History, St Johns Seminary, Boston, MA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrontispiece\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: First Explorations in History and Comedy; Henry VI to Love’s Labour’s Lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: The Chronicle Plays: An Overview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: The First Tetralogy (1590-96)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Shakespeare’s Early Comedies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude: Shakespeare and Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Mid-Elizabethan Accomplishments: King John to Henry V \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Shakespeare and the Mid-Elizabethan Nineties\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: The Second Tetralogy (1595-1599)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Climax of the Elizabethan Decade: Much Ado About Nothing to Hamlet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: The High Comedies of the Late 1590’s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Hamlet (late 1588, 1575-89, revised 1602-3, 1599-1604)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041996439895,"sku":"9781666902082","price":100.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666902082.jpg?v=1750952541","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-elizabethan-reformation-literary-negotiation-of-religious-difference-9781666902082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}