Prayer, Despair, and Drama
Elizabethan Introspection
Cloth – $30
978-0-252-02222-7
Publication Date
Cloth: 01/01/1996
About the Book
In this major contribution to discussions of the relationship between religion and literature in Elizabethan England, Peter Iver Kaufman argues that the soul-searching and self-scourging typical of late Tudor Calvinism was reflected in the rhetoric of self-loathing then prevalent in sermons, sonnets, and soliloquys. Kaufman shows how this spiritual psychology informs major literary texts including Hamlet, The Fairie Queene, Donne's Holy Sonnets, and other works.About the Author
Peter Iver Kaufman is the George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. His many books include On Agamben, Donatism, Pelagianism, and the Missing Links and Religion Around Shakespeare.Reviews
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"Strikingly original and beautifully written....Prayer, Despair, and Drama is an extremely rich, complex study." --John Corrigan, author of The Feeling of Forgetting: Christianity, Race, and Violence in America
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