Shakespearean Resurrection by Sean Benson

Shakespearean Resurrection by Sean Benson

This engaging book demonstrates Shakespeare's abiding interest in the theatrical potential of the Christian resurrection from the dead. In fourteen of Shakespeare's plays, characters who have been lost, sometimes for years, suddenly reappear seemingly returning from the dead. In the classical recognition scene, such moments are explained away in naturalistic terms a character was lost at sea but survived, or abducted and escaped, and so on. Shakespeare never invalidates such explanations, but in his manipulation of classical conventions he parallels these moments with the recognition scenes from the Gospels, repeatedly evoking Christ's resurrection from the dead.

Benson's close study of the plays, as well as the classical and biblical sources that Shakespeare fuses into his recognition scenes, clearly elucidates the ways in which the playwright explored his abiding interest in the human desire to transcend death and to live reunited and reconciled with others. In his manipulation of resurrection imagery, Shakespeare conflates the material with the immaterial, the religious with the secular, and the sacred with the profane.

Benson, Sean: - Sean Benson is professor of English at University of Dubuque. He currently serves on the executive board for the South Central Renaissance Conference and on the Reader Advisory Board for Explorations in Renaissance Culture.

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ISBN 13	9780820704166
ISBN 10	0820704164
Titel	Shakespearean Resurrection
Autor	Sean Benson
Serie	Medieval And Renaissance Literary Studies
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Duquesne University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2009-10-14
Seitenanzahl	229
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.