Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare by Katherine Steele Br

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Argues that Shakespeare's plays present ""secularization"" not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government to wonder and the spatial imagination.

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The term "secular" inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare's plays present "secularization" not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government and performative language to wonder and the spatial imagination.Thinking about Shakespeare and secularization also involves thinking about how to interpret history and temporality in the contexts of Shakespeare's medieval past, the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, and the critical dispositions that define Shakespeare studies today. These essays reject a necessary opposition between "sacred" and "secular" and instead analyze how such categories intersect. In fresh analyses of plays ranging from Hamlet and The Tempest to All's Well that Ends Well and All Is True, secularization emerges as an interpretive act that explores the cultural protocols of representation within both Shakespeare's plays and the critical domains in which they are studied and taught.The volume's diverse disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches shift our focus from literal religion and doctrinal issues to such aspects of early modern culture as theatrical performance, geography, race, architecture, music, and the visual arts.

Author Biography

Katherine Steele Brokaw is an associate professor of English at University of California, Merced.Jay Zysk is assistant professor of English at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Table of Contents

Preface Sarah Beckwith Introduction: Hermeneutics of Sacred and Secular Katherine Steele Brokaw and Jay Zysk Part One: Defining a Secular Hermeneutics Titus's Infinite Jest William N. West Secularity Meets Wonder Woman in All's Well that Ends Well Kent Cartwright Wooing Words: Secularizing Language and the Language of Secularism in Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet Tobias D

Review

"Is our world secular or religious--and can such a distinction be meaningfully drawn? What are the fates of art and religion in modernity? With meticulous scholarship--and an ecumenical spirit - this volume profitably directs these questions at Shakespeare." --Paul A. Kottman, The New School for Social Research

Review Quote

"Is our world secular or religious--and can such a distinction be meaningfully drawn? What are the fates of art and religion in modernity? With meticulous scholarship--and an ecumenical spirit - this volume profitably directs these questions at Shakespeare." --Paul A. Kottman, The New School for Social Research

Details ISBN0810140519 Pages 256 Publisher Northwestern University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 0810140519 ISBN-13 9780810140516 Language English Format Paperback Imprint Northwestern University Press Place of Publication Evanston Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-10-01 NZ Release Date 2019-10-01 Author Angela Heetderks Publication Date 2019-07-30 UK Release Date 2019-07-30 Series Rethinking the Early Modern Edited by Jason Zysk DEWEY 822.33 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2019-07-30 We've got this

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