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Texts and Traditions

Beatrice Groves
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      Texts and Traditions explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, Groves eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways in which Shakespeare's borrowing from both the visual culture of Catholicism and the linguistic wealth of the Protestant English Bible enriched his drama. Through close readings of a numberof plays - Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1 Henry IV, Henry V ,and Measure for Measure - Groves unearths and explains previously unrecognised allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood. Texts and Traditions provides new evidence of the wayin which Shakespeare exploited his audience's cultural memory and biblical knowledge in order to enrich his ostensibly secular drama and argues that we need to unravel the interpretative possibilities of these religious nuances in order fully to grasp the implications of his plays.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Beatrice Groves EAN: 9780199208982 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 437 g HEIGHT: 220 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-11-30 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Religion and beliefs

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      Beatrice Groves is the Junior Research Fellow in Humanities at Wolfson College, Oxford.
      Texts and Traditions explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, Groves eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways in which Shakespeare's borrowing from both the visual culture of Catholicism and the linguistic wealth of the Protestant English Bible enriched his drama. Through close readings of a numberof plays - Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1 Henry IV, Henry V ,and Measure for Measure - Groves unearths and explains previously unrecognised allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood. Texts and Traditions provides new evidence of the wayin which Shakespeare exploited his audience's cultural memory and biblical knowledge in order to enrich his ostensibly secular drama and argues that we need to unravel the interpretative possibilities of these religious nuances in order fully to grasp the implications of his plays.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Beatrice Groves EAN: 9780199208982 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 437 g HEIGHT: 220 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-11-30 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Religion and beliefs

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      Beatrice Groves is the Junior Research Fellow in Humanities at Wolfson College, Oxford.

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