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Prayer, Despair, and Drama
Peter Iver Kaufman
其他書名
Elizabethan Introspection
出版University of Illinois Press, 1996
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralReligion / GeneralReligion / Christianity / AnglicanReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christianity / CalvinistReligion / Christian Church / History
ISBN025202222X9780252022227
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tvEhB2EsFW8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Strikingly original and beautifully written....Prayer, Despair,

and Drama is an extremely rich, complex study." -- John Corrigan,

Arizona State University West

Prayer, Despair, and Drama explores the godly sorrow and pious

dis-ease, or lack of ease, of Elizabethan Calvinists and finds that what

some have characterized as an evangelism of fear functioned more as a

kind of religious therapy.

In this major contribution to discussions of the relationship between

religion and literature in Elizabethan England, Peter Iver Kaufman argues

that the soul-searching and self-scourging typical of late Tudor Calvinism

was reflected in the rhetoric of self-loathing then prevalent in sermons,

sonnets, and soliloquys. Kaufman shows how this spiritual psychology informs

major literary texts including Hamlet,The Fairie Queene,

Donne's Holy Sonnets, and other works.

A volume in the series Studies in Anglican History, edited by Peter

W. Williams