Crisis of Communion: Eucharistic Representations in Shakespeare's History Cycle
Eucharistic language and imagery are the connective tissue that unites William Shakespeare's history tetralogies into a coherent whole. Together, they depict England's communal crisis—civil war—as a crisis of Communion; eucharistic sacrilege collapses a sacramental ontology, which in turn...
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Published in | ELH Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 317 - 343 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
01.06.2022
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