Violence and Grace: Exceptional Life between Shakespeare and Modernity (Rethinking the Early Modern)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810136589 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Violence and Grace, Nichole Miller establishes a conceptual link between early modern English drama and twentieth-century political theology, both of which emerge from the experience of political crisis. In doing so, she expands our understanding of drama’s continuing theoretical impact.. Miller’s analyses accordingly undertake to retrieve for political theology the relations between gender, sexuality, and the political aesthetics of violence on the early modern stage, addressing the plays of Marlowe, Middleton, and especially Shakespeare
"While Miller constantly engages major ideas and texts, she shows perhaps her greatest talent as a close reader, not only of the early modern texts but of their sources and the more contemporary theory she uses to illuminate them .The result is a closely reasoned and closely argued contribution to today’s early modern studies that also understands its roots in a precarious present." --Modern Philology