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Reading Shakespeare´s Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets
Lisa Freinkel
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Hardback. This text offers a systematic account of the theology behind Shakespeare's poetry. Investigating the poetic stakes of Christianity's efforts to assimilate Jewish scripture, the book reads Shakespeare through the history of Christian allegory. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
The most influential treatments of Shakespeare's Sonnets have ignored the impact of theology on his poetics, examining instead the poet's "secular" emphasis on psychology and subjectivity. Reading Shakespeare's Will offers the first systematic account of the theology behind the poetry. Investigating the poetic stakes of Christianity's efforts to assimilate Jewish scripture, the book reads Shakespeare through the history of Christian allegory. To "read Shakespeare's will," Freinkel argues, is to read his bequest to and from a literary history saturated by religious doctrine. Freinkel thus challenges the common equation of subjectivity with secularity, and defines Shakespeare's poetic voice in theological ... Read more
The most influential treatments of Shakespeare's Sonnets have ignored the impact of theology on his poetics, examining instead the poet's "secular" emphasis on psychology and subjectivity. Reading Shakespeare's Will offers the first systematic account of the theology behind the poetry. Investigating the poetic stakes of Christianity's efforts to assimilate Jewish scripture, the book reads Shakespeare through the history of Christian allegory. To "read Shakespeare's will," Freinkel argues, is to read his bequest to and from a literary history saturated by religious doctrine. Freinkel thus challenges the common equation of subjectivity with secularity, and defines Shakespeare's poetic voice in theological ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231123242
SKU
V9780231123242
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About Lisa Freinkel
Lisa Freinkel is assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon.
Reviews for Reading Shakespeare´s Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets
Freinkel brilliantly reorganizes our understanding of "modern" subjectivity as expressed in Shakespeare's supposedly Petrarchan poetry... what this book accomplishes is a major shift in out understanding of Renaissance lyric. Studies in English Literature Engaging, provocative, impressively learned, and heavily annotated... [Lisa Freinkel's] book does much relocate Shakespeare in relation to a theological tradition extending from St. Paul to Luther. Shakespeare ... Read more