The politics of ethical presentism: appropriation, spirituality and the case of<i>Antony and Cleopatra</i>

Streete, Adrian

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“…Kiernan Ryan's article, ‘ Troillus and Cressida : The perils of presentism’, considers the world of the play as dominated by a presentist moment, which denies both past and future. Adrian Streete's article ‘The Politics of Ethical Presentism: Appropriation, Spirituality and the Case of Antony and Cleopatra' explores the apocalyptic temporality of that play whilst at the same time suggesting ways in which scholars can avoid the danger of “jettisoning the past in favour of the present”, a danger which it seems is inherent in all presentist studies (407). What all of these works have in common is the self‐conscious analysis of time and temporality as the key structural and critical principle that governs any critical engagement with Shakespeare's plays.…”

Section: Multi‐temporal Shakespeares: New Directions In Critical Tempmentioning

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Shakespeare, Time, Theory

Lewis

2014

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This article charts the range of ways in which literary scholars from the 1960s to the present day have approached Shakespeare's dramatic works through considerations of time. Time in the plays, as both subject matter (narrative theme) and as a key element of dramatic form (time scheme) has, with varying intensity, been a popular consideration in the field of Shakespeare criticism since the middle of the twentieth century. Time or temporality are also, however, important ordering principles for the majority of the theoretical approaches to early modern literary culture that have dominated modes of enquiry into Shakespeare's works in this period. This article considers the ways in which scholars' conceptualisations of time and the temporal in the plays have both shaped and been shaped by the increased popularity of critical temporal studies across the humanities, and more specifically by the range of theoretical frameworks – historicism, cultural materialism, new historicism, new materialism, presentism, new formalism, cognitivism – which have, to differing degrees, transformed the field of Shakespeare criticism over the last 50 years.

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Section: Multi‐temporal Shakespeares: New Directions In Critical Tempmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shakespeare, Time, Theory

Lewis

2014

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Antony and Cleopatra

Innes¹

2015

Shakespeare’s Roman Plays

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Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England

Streete

2009

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Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama. Examining the complex and painful shift from late medieval religious culture to a society dominated by the ideas of the Reformers, Adrian Streete presents a fresh understanding of Reformed theology and the representation of early modern subjectivity. Through close analysis of major thinkers such as Augustine, William of Ockham, Erasmus, Luther and Calvin, the book argues for the profoundly Christological focus of Reformed theology and explores how this manifests itself in early modern drama. Moving beyond questions of authorial 'belief', Streete assesses Elizabethan and Jacobean drama's engagement with the challenges of the Reformation.

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The politics of ethical presentism: appropriation, spirituality and the case ofAntony and Cleopatra

Cited by 5 publications

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Shakespeare, Time, Theory

Shakespeare, Time, Theory

Antony and Cleopatra

Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England

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