Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets

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Columbia University Press, 30 Ιαν 2002 - 416 σελίδες

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 rather than psychoanalytic terms. Tracing from Augustine to Luther the religious legacy that informs Shakespeare's work, Freinkel suggests that we cannot properly understand his poetry without recognizing it as a response to Luther's Reformation. Delving into the valences and repercussions of this response, Reading Shakespeare's Will charts the notion of a "theology of figure" that helped to shape the themes, tropes, and formal structures of Renaissance literature and thought.

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Augustine Under the Fig Tree
1
Petrarch in the shade of the Laurel
47
Luther Disfiguring the Word
115
Willful Abuse The Canker and the Rose
159
Wills Bondage AntiSemitism and The Merchant of Venice
237
NOTES
293
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
359
INDEX
371
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Lisa Freinkel is assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon.

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