Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation

Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology

Randall Martin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-897092-7 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology breaks new ground by revealing the playwright's dramatic reinvention of early modern Pauline texts and paratexts in a wide range of plays. Their common thread is Pauline-allusive characters who resist political, social, and/or physical subjection and aspire -- with mixed degrees of failure and success -- to emancipated lives of fulfilled being and belonging. Historically contextualized case-studies of Henry VI Part Three and Richard III, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and King John explore desires for freedom on authorial and theatrical as well as thematic levels. They seek out new critical directions by bringing post-typological and postsecular 'Pauline Shakespeare' into conversation with contemporary theories of disability, gender, race, and ecocriticism. A further original feature of the book is intertextual attention to parallel critical approaches to St Paul by several early modern women writers. Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation rediscovers a polyvocal, complex, and emancipatory Paul as a significant career-long resource for the playwright's innovative characterization and dramaturgy.

Randall Martin is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author or co-author of eight books or scholarly editions, over 50 essays and articles, and in 2020-2022 he was leader of the international eco-Shakespeare-in-performance project, Cymbeline in the Anthropocene. He has received four major grants from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, including one which supported Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation. He is now also Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Western Ontario.

Introduction
1: Juggling Paul: Disability, De/conversion, and Crip Exigency in Henry VI Part Three and Richard III
2: Shakespeare's Letter to the Illyrians
Prologue to Chapters 3 and 4: Shakespeare's Pauline Women: Adriana, Marina, Hermione, and Paulina
3: Adriana and the Discontents of Companionate Marriage; Apostolic Marina
4: Truth-Telling, Gender Equity, and Reconciliation in The Winter's Tale
5: The Bio-Logos of Malta: Island Resilience and Persistence in The Tempest
Conclusion:: Giving Nature a Place at the Table
Appendix:: Erasmus on St Paul in the Paraphrases upon the New Testament

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	657 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-897092-7 / 0198970927
ISBN-13	978-0-19-897092-7 / 9780198970927
Zustand	Neuware