Saints Alive! Falstaff, Martin Marprelate, and the Staging of Puritanism

Poole, Kristen

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“…Kristen Poole has argued that parodies of sixteenthcentury Puritans include a rhetorical style, "employed extensively by early modern puritan preachers" that is "repetitive, pedagogic, and laced with abundant biblical exegesis," including "a question and answer format." 74 Shylock, likewise, appears to echo Puritan mannerisms in his early speeches to Antonio and Bassanio. In his first exchange with Antonio, he explicates the Jacob narrative despite Antonio's interruptions, including the exegesis of Jacob as the third possessor.…”

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Shylock, Bassanio, and the Jacob Narrative

Perry

2019

Christianity & Literature

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Shakespeare's structural allusions to the Jacob narrative in The Merchant of Venice subvert traditional readings of the play, which posit Jew against Christian, law against charity, or wealth against love, problematizing these dichotomies until they ultimately collapse. Distinctions between Jew and Christian become ideologically irrelevant; instead, the willingness to negotiate, barter, and settle for imperfect love holds tragedy at bay. In conflating religious identity, and reversing the conventions that posit religious identity as central to state politics, the play suggests that political accommodation rooted in pragmatism offers an uneasy peace as an alternative to a violent and tragic end.

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Shylock, Bassanio, and the Jacob Narrative

Perry

2019

Christianity & Literature

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“…1 There has been no lack of interest in the religious issues of the Second Henriad, especially in regard to the Catholic, Protestant, and Reformation ideologies found within the plays. For interesting reading on these issues, see, among many others, Poole 1995, Hunt 1998, and Hamilton 2003. But I would distinguish this work from the sorts of spiritual/ethical matters I am discussing here.…”

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Spiritual Shakespeares

Ruiter¹

2005

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in secular materialism, theology, or contemporary theory. That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show.John D. Caputo (from the Foreword)Readers will find here an engagement with both Shakespeare and spirituality which is intelligent, original, and challengingly optimistic, one which surely succeeds in its wish to 'reinvigorate and strengthen politically progressive materialist criticism'. Jonathan Dollimore (from the Afterword)Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the 'religious turn' in recent thought and to the spiritualised politics of terrorism and the 'War on Terror'. Opening a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, this volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Among its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism.

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Political Imagination, c. 1585–1640

Smuts

1999

Culture and Power in England, 1585–1685

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Saints Alive! Falstaff, Martin Marprelate, and the Staging of Puritanism

Cited by 74 publications

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Shylock, Bassanio, and the Jacob Narrative

Shylock, Bassanio, and the Jacob Narrative

Spiritual Shakespeares

Political Imagination, c. 1585–1640

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