Prayer, despair, and drama
Elizabethan introspection
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Author
Publication
1996 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
41,500 words, Guess
Page Count
166 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL796572M
- ISBN-10025202222X
- OCLC Control Number32924866
- OCLC Control Numberprayerdespairdra0000kauf
- Library of Congress Control Number95032477
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- Goodreads1565639
Classifications
- DDC274.2/06
- LCCBR757 .K38 1996
Description
Prayer, Despair, and Drama explores the godly sorrow of Elizabethan Calvinists and finds that what some have characterized as an evangelism of fear functioned more as a kind of religious therapy. 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 Faerie Queene, Donne's Holy Sonnets, and other works.
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Series Statement
- Studies in Anglican history
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