Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation

Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology

Bibliographic Data

ID20427368
AuthorsRandall Martin (Western University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Pages304
Publication date2025-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueShakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/9780198970934.001.0001
OpenAlexW4413186194
ISBN9780198970934
Open LibraryOL60839807M
LanguageEN
References cited195

Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology breaks new ground by revealing the playwright’s dramatic appropriation of early modern Pauline texts and paratexts in a diverse range of plays. Their common thread is Pauline-allusive characters who resist political, social, and/or physical subjection and aspire—with mixed degrees of failure and success—to emancipated lives of fulfilled being and belonging. Historically contextualized case-studies of Henry VI Part Three and Richard III, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and King John explore desires for freedom on authorial and theatrical as well as thematic levels. These readings also seek out new critical directions by bringing post-typological ‘Pauline Shakespeare’ into conversation with contemporary theories of disability, gender, race, and ecocriticism. A further original feature of the book is attention to parallel critical approaches to St Paul by several early modern women writers. Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation rediscovers a pluralized Paul as a significant career-long resource for Shakespeare’s innovative characterization and dramaturgy.

Characterization · Disability · Dramaturgy · Ecocriticism · Emancipation · Freedom · Gender · King John · Pericles · Race · Richard III · sense of belonging · Shakespeare · The Comedy of Errors · The Tempest · The Winter's Tale · Twelfth Night · Early Modern Women Writers · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Renaissance Literature and Culture · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism