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Reconciliation in Selected Shakespearean Dramas
Editor: Beatrice Batson
Date Of Publication: Jan 2008
Isbn13: 9781847184382
Isbn: 1-84718-438-3
This study focuses on the rich complexity of the term, reconciliation, as depicted by Shakespeare in selected dramas. The study declares the term’s biblical and theological basis and asserts that it is also a prominent word in social and political discourse. Some contributors to this volume connect reconciliation to justification and atonement before God through Christ’s death; others see the interrelations between the state and the religious character of its ruler; others unfold the need for reconciliation between one person and another or one group of persons and another, while other contributors include the thematic narrative significance of the term.
Professor Batson, Professor Emerita of English at Wheaton College, served as Chair of the Department of English for thirteen years and taught courses in Shakespeare for thirty-three years. Professor Batson is the author or editor of ten books, and the author of numerous chapters edited by others. She has also written numerous articles for journals and magazines, and is the author of scores of book reviews. During her teaching career, she was a frequent lecturer on college and university campuses in the United States and Canada. At present, Professor Batson is the Coordinator of the Shakespeare Special Collection on Shakespeare and the Christian Tradition at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
A rum thought occurred to me as I read these essays, and upon reflection I think it was not altogether far-fetched: “Shakespeare himself would immediately appreciate these.” This could not, I think, at all be said of much that has been written during the past forty years of literary criticism and scholarship. The great point of these essays is that they treat of the true substance of Shakespeare’s concerns. They have no ulterior agenda. None. Could we hope that they signal the arrival of a post-post-modern epoch of scholarship–one which finds itself enthralled by that which clearly enthralled the Bard?
Dr. Thomas Howard Retired Chair of English at Gordon College, MA All readers of the Bard, but especially those interested in Shakespeare’s religion, will find this collection of essays to be a highly absorbing and informative read. Bringing together the leading experts in the field, it offers a range of perspectives on how Christian reconciliation, as conceived in scripture and developed in medieval and early modern commentary, resonates throughout the canon, with implications not only for the representation of religious experience but for political practice and theory as well in such plays as Hamlet, Measure for Measure and Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Dr. Paul White Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Purdue University, IN
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