The Promised End

The Promised End
Author: Peter Mercer
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2023-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1528957113

The Promised End explores how the endings of Shakespeare’s tragedies work – how, in effect, they resist conventional closure. It looks back from the endings of five plays – Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear – to explore how their structures of action, imagery and the interaction of different genres – comedy, tragedy and romance – bring them to conclusions that are both inevitable and yet strangely incongruous, beyond explanation and moral understanding, almost too terrible to bear.

Promised End

Promised End
Author: Seth C. Hawkins
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527537994

Perhaps the most important, difficult, and unresolved issue in Shakespeare studies is the question of Lear’s last lines; the whole meaning of Shakespeare’s greatest and most controversial tragedy depends upon it. In the 1608 Quarto, it is “O,o,o,o”—that zero to which the Fool compares Lear himself. In the 1623 Folio, the King’s last words are “Look on her! Look, her lips! Look there, look there!” No one but Lear sees what he points us to envision. Is it epiphany or delusion? Is Lear’s tragedy nihilistic or redemptive? In search of an answer, Hawkins deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches: close scrutiny of the rival texts and comparison with the play’s sources, the unique double structure of Lear, its symbols and imagery, its visual and verbal scriptural allusions, even its numerology. The book enlists its readers in a quest for final meaning, not unlike the movement of the play itself towards Dover and the extreme verge of its imagined cliff, that high place where life borders upon death and earth meets sky and sea.

The Promised End

The Promised End
Author: Paul S. Fiddes
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2000-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780631220848

This book brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'.

Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse

Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004282289

Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of ‘Modernism and Christianity’ and ‘Apocalypse Studies’. The modernist impulse to ‘make it new’, to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the ‘new’, but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization. In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de siècle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of ‘political religions’, to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study.

The Annihilation of Hell

The Annihilation of Hell
Author: Nicholas Ansell
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1780783183

This work analyses and evaluates Jurgen Moltmann's model of universal salvation and its relation to his understanding of the redemption, or eschatological fulfilment, of time. For Jurgen Moltmann, Hell is the nemesis of Hope. The 'Annihilation of Hell' thus refers both to Hell's annihilative power in history and to the overcoming of that power as envisioned by Moltmann's distinctive theology of the cross in which God becomes 'all in all' through Christ's descent into Godforsakenness. The negation of Hell and the fulfilment of history are inseparable. Attentive to the overall contours and dynamics of Moltmann's thinking, especially his zimzum doctrine of creation, his eschatologically oriented philosophy of time, and his expanded understanding of the nature-grace relationship, this study asks whether the universal salvation that he proposes can honour human freedom, promise vindication for those who suffer, and do justice to biblical revelation. As well as providing an in-depth exposition of Moltmann's ideas, The Annihilation of Hell also explores how a 'covenantal universalism' might revitalise our web of beliefs in a way that is attuned to the authorising of Scripture and the spirituality of existence. If divine and human freedom are to be reconciled, as Moltmann believes, the confrontation between Hell and hope will entail rethinking issues that are not only at the centre of theology but at the heart of life itself.

Apocalyptic Shakespeare

Apocalyptic Shakespeare
Author: Melissa Croteau
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786453516

This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.

A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare

A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Author: Horace Howard Furness
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2023-03-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382130734

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

King Lear

King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1880
Genre:
ISBN:

King Lear

King Lear
Author: H. S. Toshack
Publisher: WordSmith
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0958005842

"And that’s true too"

Author: Pierre Iselin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-10-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 144381587X

This collection of provocative new essays, mainly by French scholars, on Shakespeare’s great tragedy, focuses on linguistic, aesthetic and philosophical issues with specific attention paid to the dimension of early modern desire, sexuality and gender relations. King Lear is here re-examined in the perspective of Lucrece, Montaigne, Renaissance medicine and anatomy, the grotesque, myth and imagery as well as negative theology. It is hoped that this will serve to update our approaches to this elusive, undecided play, neither Christian nor as completely nihilistic as some critics have argued, which nevertheless remains quite popular on French and English stages alike.