TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lupton,Julia Reinhard
TI  - Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology
SN  - 9780226157443
AV  - PR3017 .C585 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Political theology
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Political plays, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christian drama, English
KW  - Christian saints in literature
KW  - Citizenship in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Acknowledgments; A Note on Texts; Introduction; One: Citizen Paul; Two: Deformations of Fellowship in Marlowe's ""Jew of Malta""; Three: Merchants of Venice, Circles of Citizenship; Four: Othello Circumcised; Five: Antigone in Vienna; Six: Creature Caliban; Seven: Samson Dagonistes; Epilogue: The Literature of Citizenship: A Humanifesto; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception. Embodied by such diverse personages as Antigone, Paul, Barabbas, Shylock, Othello, Caliban, Isabella, and Samson, the citizen-saint is a sacrificial figure: a model of moral and aesthetic extremity who inspires new regimes of citizenship with his or her death and martyrd
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