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Shakespearean Resurrection : The Art of Almost Raising the Dead / Sean Benson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (229 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780820705071
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR3069.R44 B46 2009
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Shakespeare’s Art of Almost Raising the Dead -- ONE The Comedies: Recognition and Quasi Resurrection -- TWO Failed Resurrections in Romeo and Juliet and Othello -- THREE Cordelia’s Quasi Resurrection and Shakespearean Revision -- FOUR The Limits of Stage Resurrection in Pericles and Cymbeline -- FIVE Raising the Dead in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest -- APPENDIX Mock Resurrections -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Shakespeare’s Art of Almost Raising the Dead -- ONE The Comedies: Recognition and Quasi Resurrection -- TWO Failed Resurrections in Romeo and Juliet and Othello -- THREE Cordelia’s Quasi Resurrection and Shakespearean Revision -- FOUR The Limits of Stage Resurrection in Pericles and Cymbeline -- FIVE Raising the Dead in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest -- APPENDIX Mock Resurrections -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX

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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.

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In English.

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