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Texts and traditions : religion in Shakespeare, 1592-1604

Explores Shakespeare's engagement with the religious culture of his time. Through readings of a number of plays - "Romeo and Juliet", "King John", "1 Henry IV", "Henry V", and "Measure for Measure", this work explains allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood
eBook, English, 2007
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2007
Church history
1 online resource (ix, 231 pages)
9781429460019, 9780191514142, 9780191706158, 9786610758364, 9781280758362, 1429460016, 0191514144, 0191706159, 6610758360, 1280758368
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Drama and the word : the Bible on the early modern stage
Shakespeare's incarnational aesthetic : the mystery plays and Catholicism
Comedic form and Paschal motif in the first and second quartos of Romeo and Juliet
"I am not he shall buyld the Lord a house" : religious imagery and the succession to the English throne in King John
"Covering discretion with a coat of folly" : the redemptive self-fashioning of Hal
"Usurp the beggary he was never born to" : Measure for measure and the questioning of divine kingship
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English