Literature and politics in the English Reformation

Betteridge, Thomas

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“…Gary Kuchar uses similar methods when he uncovers Shakespeare's self‐consciousness about religious contention by reading ceremonial indecorum in Titus through the lens of Tudor liturgical politics. Demonstrating that Titus is itself a Tudor play that can be read politically, Kuchar's essay joins a long tradition of reading Tudor drama as political (Bevington, Tudor Drama and Politics ; White, Theatre and Reformation ; Walker, The Politics of Performance ; Betteridge, Literature and Politics ). Indeed, the political aims of Tudor drama have long been explored, as has its intellectual sophistication and its ability to produce epistemological crises (Altman).…”

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Tudor Shakespeare: Taking the Long View

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2017

Literature Compass

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Tudor literature, especially texts written between 1530 and 1580, has been understudied by scholars. But Shakespeare was born and came of age in Tudor England, and his work is influenced by the drama and politics of this period. Reading Tudor drama alongside Shakespearean drama helps us better examine the way that various ideas and dramatic techniques developed across the 16th century. Attention to Tudor drama and its relationship to Shakespeare helps us rethink scholarly periodization and the social, religious, and theatrical changes and continuities of the long 16th century.

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Tudor Shakespeare: Taking the Long View

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2017

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“…Baldwin shows no confidence whatsoever, Thomas Betteridge argues, in the 'power' of writing or print to 'carry a radical reforming message throughout the country'. 32 Meanwhile, Stenner suggests that 'writing by hand' is just as much one of this work's 'objects of satire': the handwritten text, she observes, can be put 'to suspect uses'. 33 Jane Griffiths is a little more optimistic.…”

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2016

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Birth Places: Shakespeare’s Beliefs / Believing in Shakespeare
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2014
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Hello. I am Julia Lupton and I am not a biographer. I speak to you today as a new observer of Shakespearean biography, which I've come to respect, both in preparing today's remarks, and in listening to these extraordinary proceedings, as playing a vital role in our field's scholarly ecology. I start with a text that Brian Cummings set up for us in his Anniversary Lecture, and that Larry Rhu returned to in the question period yesterday morning. (Great to be in such company!) Henry James' novella, The Birthplace, features an intellectually ambitious and financially stressed middle-aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gedge, who receive an extraordinary offer to become caretakers of …. "The Birthplace." (Shakespeare is never mentioned by name, but the reference is clear.) Early in their adventure, Morris Gedge tells his wife, "'The more we know Him … the more we shall love Him. We don't as yet, you see, know Him so very tremendously'" (9). Every Shakespeare biography adjudicates among love, knowledge, and the limits of knowledge in different ways, and with different consequences. Too much love reduces biography to hagiography, while too much knowledge may drain our subject of its literary interest and affective charge. Finally, the limits of knowledge function as both spur to critical investigation and as invitation to imagine, interpret, and invent. If biography combines love and knowledge in the form of history and fiction, religion nominates that area of life writing where knowledge meets its limits, and where love has no bounds. My remarks fall into three short sections. I begin with a review of current scholarship on Shakespeare and religion; I turn to an example from Cymbeline of what I call Shakespeare's abounding secularism, and I end by returning to James' "The Birthplace" as a critical allegory of Shakespearean biography.

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Literature and politics in the English Reformation

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Tudor Shakespeare: Taking the Long View

Tudor Shakespeare: Taking the Long View

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Birth Places: Shakespeare’s Beliefs / Believing in Shakespeare

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