Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare Brokaw Katherine Steele
Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare Brokaw Katherine Steele The term "secular" inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. These…
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Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare Brokaw Katherine Steele
The term "secular" inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government and performative language to wonder and the spatial imagination.Thinking about Shakespeare and secularization also involves thinking about how to interpret history and temporality in the contexts of Shakespeare's medieval past, the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, and the critical dispositions that define Shakespeare studies today. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare's plays present "secularization" not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular.
These essays reject a necessary opposition between "sacred" and
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