Citizen-saints
Subtitle: Shakespeare and political theology
By: Julia Reinhard Lupton.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion; Political theology -- History of doctrines -- 16th century; Political theology -- History of doctrines -- 17th century; Political plays, English -- History and criticism; Christian drama, English -- History and criticism; Christian saints in literature; Citizenship in literature
Description: "Citizen-Saints uses key works by Shakespeare as well as Marlowe and Milton to examine the aims, limits, and legacies of classical and modern citizenship in Western literature. What Julia Reinhard Lupton defines as the literature of citizenship both encapsulates and dramitizes the imaginative and political contest between local regions of cult, culture, and community and more universal and impersonal economies of law and historical belonging."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index.