1111 2 3 4 5111 ACCENTS ON SHAKESPEARE 6 7111 General Editor: TERENCE HAWKES 8 9 1011 1 Spiritual Shakespeares 2 3111 4 5 6111 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are 7 dreamt of in secular materialism, theology, or contemporary theory. 8 That at least is what the present collection sets out so suggestively to show. 9 John D. Caputo (from the Foreword) 20111 Readers will find here an engagement with both Shakespeare and 1 spirituality which is intelligent, original, and challengingly optimistic, 2 one which surely succeeds in its wish to ‘reinvigorate and strengthen 3 politically progressive materialist criticism’. 4 Jonathan Dollimore (from the Afterword) 5 Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading 6 Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current 7 world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics 8 in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent thought and to the spiritualised politics of terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’. 9 Opening a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, this 30111 volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays 1 could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from 2 a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual 3 critique. Among its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for 4 materialist criticism. 5 Spiritual Shakespeares reaches across and beyond literary studies with 6 challenging, powerful contributions from Philippa Berry, John D. Caputo, 7 Jonathan Dollimore, Ewan Fernie, Lisa Freinkel, Lowell Gallagher, 8 John J. Joughin, Richard Kearney, David Ruiter and Kiernan Ryan. 9 Ewan Fernie is Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, 40111 University of London, and the author of Shame in Shakespeare (Routledge, 4111 2002). 1111 ACCENTS ON SHAKESPEARE 2 3 General Editor: TERENCE HAWKES 4 5111 6 17 8 It is more than twenty years since the New Accents series helped to 9 establish ‘theory’ as a fundamental and continuing feature of the study 1011 of literature at the undergraduate level. Since then, the need for short, powerful ‘cutting edge’ accounts of and comments on new developments 1 has increased sharply. In the case of Shakespeare, books with this sort 2 of focus have not been readily available. Accents on Shakespeare 3111 aims to supply them. 4 Accents on Shakespeare volumes will either ‘apply’ theory, or 5 broaden and adapt it in order to connect with concrete teaching con- cerns. In the process, they will also reflect and engage with the major 6 developments in Shakespeare studies of the last ten years. 7 The series will lead as well as follow. In pursuit of this goal it will be 8 a two-tiered series. In addition to affordable, ‘adoptable’ titles aimed at 19 modular undergraduate courses, it will include a number of research- 20111 based books. Spirited and committed, these second-tier volumes advocate radical change rather than stolidly reinforcing the status quo. 1 2 IN THE SAME SERIES 3 Shakespeare and Appropriation Shakespeare and Feminist 4 Edited by Christy Desmet Performance: Ideology on Stage 5 and Robert Sawyer Sarah Werner 6 Shakespeare Without Women Shame in Shakespeare 7 Dympna Callaghan Ewan Fernie 8 Philosophical Shakespeares The Sound of Shakespeare 9 Edited by John J. Joughin Wes Folkerth 30111 Shakespeare and Modernity: Shakespeare in the Present 1 Early Modern to Millennium Terence Hawkes 2 Edited by Hugh Grady 3 Making Shakespeare Marxist Shakespeares Tiffany Stern 4 Edited by Jean E. Howard Presentist Shakespeare 5 and Scott Cutler Shershow Edited by Terence Hawkes 6 Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis and Hugh Grady 7 Philip Armstrong 8 Shakespeare and Modern Theatre: 9 The Performance of Modernity 40111 Edited by Michael Bristol 4111 and Kathleen McLuskie 1111 2 3 4 5111 Spiritual 6 7111 8 Shakespeares 9 1011 1 Edited by EWAN FERNIE 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 I~ ~?io~;~;n~~~up 4111 LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2005 by Routledge A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Published 2017 by Routledge Library of Congress Cataloging in 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Publication Data Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, Spiritual Shakespeares / edited by NY 10017, USA Ewan Fernie. p. cm. – (Accents on Shakespeare) Includes bibliographical references and Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor index. & Francis Group, an informa business Contents: Introduction: Shakespeare, spirituality, and contemporary criticism / Editorial matter and selection Ewan Fernie – ‘Where hope is coldest’: © 2005 Ewan Fernie All’s well that ends well / Kiernan Individual chapters © the Ryan – Harry’s (in)human contributors face / David Ruiter – Waiting for Gobbo / Lowell Gallagher – ‘Salving the mail’: perjury, grace, and the Typeset in Baskerville by disorder of things in Love’s labour’s lost Florence Production Ltd, / Philippa Berry – The Shakespearean Stoodleigh, Devon fetish / Lisa Freinkel – Bottom’s secret / John J. Joughin – Spectres of The Open Access version of this Hamlet / Richard Kearney – The last book, available at act: presentism, spirituality, and the www.tandfebooks.com, has been politics of Hamlet / Ewan Fernie. made available under a Creative 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 Commons Attribution-Non – Religion. 2. Spiritual life in Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 literature. 3. Spirituality in literature. license. I. Fernie, Ewan, 1971–. II. Series. PR3011.S65 2005 British Library Cataloguing in 822.3′3–dc22 2005004410 Publication Data ISBN 978-0-415-31966-9 (hbk) ISBN 978-0-415-31967-6 (pbk) 1111 2 3 4 5111 And what impossibility would slay 6 In common sense, sense saves another way. 7111 (All’s Well That Ends Well ) 8 9 No settled senses of the world can match 1011 The pleasures of that madness. 1 (The Winter’s Tale) 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 4111 1111 2 3 4 5111 6 17 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 19 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 4111 1111 2 3 4 5111 Contents 6 7111 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 List of contributors ix 4 General editor’s preface xiii 5 Acknowledgements xv 6 Foreword: of hyper-reality xvii 7 JOHN D. CAPUTO 8 9 20111 Introduction: Shakespeare, spirituality and 1 contemporary criticism 1 2 EWAN FERNIE 3 4 1 ‘Where hope is coldest’: All’s Well That Ends Well 28 5 KIERNAN RYAN 6 7 2 Harry’s (in)human face 50 8 DAVID RUITER 9 30111 3 Waiting for Gobbo 73 1 LOWELL GALLAGHER 2 3 4 ‘Salving the mail’: perjury, grace and the 4 disorder of things in Love’s Labour’s Lost 94 5 PHILIPPA BERRY 6 7 5 The Shakespearean fetish 109 8 LISA FREINKEL 9 40111 6 Bottom’s secret . 130 4111 JOHN J. JOUGHIN viii Contents 1111 7 Spectres of Hamlet 157 2 RICHARD KEARNEY 3 4 8 The last act: presentism, spirituality and 5111 the politics of Hamlet 186 6 EWAN FERNIE 17 8 Afterword 212 9 JONATHAN DOLLIMORE 1011 1 Bibliography 219 2 Index 233 3111 4 5 6 7 8 19 20111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 4111 1111 2 3 4 5111 Contributors 6 7111 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 Philippa Berry was Fellow and Director of Studies at King’s 4 College, Cambridge until 2004. She is Visiting Fellow in the 5 Department of English at the University of Bristol. She is 6 author of Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the 7 Unmarried Queen and Shakespeare’s Feminine Endings: Disfiguring 8 Death in the Tragedies. She is co-editor of Shadow of Spirit: 9 Postmodernism and Religion and Textures of Renaissance Knowledge. 20111 John D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of 1 Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University. His most 2 recent books include Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions 3 and Circumfession, On Religion and More Radical Hermeneutics. He 4 is also the author of The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida 5 and editor of the Fordham University Press book series 6 ‘Perspectives in Continental Philosophy’. 7 8 Jonathan Dollimore recently left the academy to concen- 9 trate on writing. His books include (with Alan Sinfield), 30111 Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2nd edn, 1 1994); Sexual Dissidence; Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture; 2 Sex, Literature and Censorship and Radical Tragedy: Religion, 3 Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His 4 Contemporaries (3rd edn, 2003). 5 Ewan Fernie is Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, 6 University of London. He is the author of Shame in Shakespeare 7 and the leading editor of Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical 8 Reader. His latest essay, ‘Shakespeare and the Prospect of 9 Presentism’, appears in Shakespeare Survey 58. He is a founding 40111 editor (with Simon Palfrey) of a new series of ‘minigraphs’ 4111 called ‘Shakespeare Now!’ x Contributors 1111 Lisa Freinkel is Associate Professor of English and Director 2 of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University 3 of Oregon. Her publications include Reading Shakespeare’s Will: 4 The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets and articles 5111 on subjects ranging from Reformation iconoclasm, to Dante’s 6 Inferno, to formalism in Kant’s Critique of Judgment.