Shakespeare and Protestant poetics / by Gleckman, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Predestination, single and double in Christian history -- The Reformation and the revival of double predestination thought -- Double predestination in early English drama -- Double predestination in Shakespearean comedy and tragedy: The merry wives of Windsor and Macbeth -- Double predestination and assurance in Shakespear: Macbeth and Twelfth night -- Conversion in Protestant and Catholic thought in the Reformation -- The Protestant conversion into marraige -- The Shakespearean conversion paradigm: Much ado about nothing -- English Protestant conversion in A midsummer night's dream -- Apostasy in The winter's tale -- The three components of free will in Plato and Aristotle: Thumos, reason, and deliberative reason -- The free will in Augustine, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation -- Free will and free conscience in Hamlet -- Hamlet and the free will in action -- The player's speech.…”

Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama / by Karim-Cooper, Farah

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Defining Beauty in Renaissance Culture -- Beautys red and virtues white58; Treatises on Beauty -- The Poetry of Love44; Beauty and Courtship -- Beauty in Pictures58; Plays and Emblem Books -- Chapter 2 Early Modern Cosmetic Culture -- The Devils craft58; The Opposition to Cosmetics -- She Shal Appeare to be the Age of Fifteene Yeares -- Painting the Queen -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Cosmetic Restoration in Jacobean Tragedy -- The artificial shine58; Painted Language -- Cosmetic Revenge Tragedy -- Dainty preserved flesh58; Fetishising the Painted Body -- Catholic Ritual and Cosmetics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 John Webster and the Culture of Cosmetics -- Beautified and Heroic58; Websters Painted Ladies -- Rethinking Websters Imagery -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Jonsons Cosmetic Ritual -- Pieced beauty58; Cosmetics as Prosthetics -- Constructing Gender in Jonsonian Comedy -- Jonson and the Cosmetics Debate -- Ingredient Culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Cosmetics and Poetics in Shakespearean Comedy -- Painting Players -- Beautifying Poetic Drama -- Chapter 7 Deceived with ornament58; Shakespeares Venice -- Cosmetic Materials in The Merchant of Venice -- Cosmetic Symbolism and Othello -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Flattering Unction58; Cosmetics in Hamlet -- Appearances and Realities58; Painted Faces in Hamlet -- Mousetraps -- Cosmeticised Bodies and the Female Interior -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page.…”
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