Biblical covenant in shakespeare, the
Auteur :
Kietzman, Mary Jo
Éditeur :
Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN :
9783319891095
Date de publication :
6 juin 2019
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
By seeding the plays with allusions to biblical covenant stories, Shakespeare not only lends ethical weight to secular lives but develops covenant as the core idea in a civil religion or a founding myth of the early-modern political community, writ small (family and friendship) and large (business and state).