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Rachid Mehdi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Representation of Puritans in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
2018Co-Authors: Rachid MehdiAbstract:This article is a study on the representation of Puritans in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, one of his most popular comic play in the modern theatre. In mocking Malvolio’s morality and ridiculous behaviour, Shakespeare wanted to denounce Puritans’ sober society in early modern England. Indeed, Puritans were depicted in the play as being selfish, idiot, hypocrite, and killjoy. In the same way, many other writers of different generations, obviously influenced by Shakespeare, have espoused his views and consequently contributed to promote this anti-Puritan literature, which is still felt today. This article discusses whether Shakespeare’s portrayal of Puritans was accurate or not. To do so, the writer first attempts to define the term “Puritan,” as the latter is quite equivocal, then take some Puritans’ characteristics, namely hypocrisy and killjoy, as provided in the play, and analyze them in the light of the studies of some historians and scholars, experts on the post Reformation Puritanism, to demonstrate that Shakespeare’s view on Puritanism is completely caricatural.
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The Representation of Puritans in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
2018Co-Authors: Awej For Translation & Literary Studies, Rachid MehdiAbstract:This article is a study on the representation of Puritans in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, one of his most popular comic play in the modern theatre. In mocking Malvolio’s morality and ridiculous behaviour, Shakespeare wanted to denounce Puritans’ sober society in early modern England. Indeed, Puritans were depicted in the play as being selfish, idiot, hypocrite, and killjoy. In the same way, many other writers of different generations, obviously influenced by Shakespeare, have espoused his views and consequently contributed to promote this anti-Puritan literature, which is still felt today. This article discusses whether Shakespeare’s portrayal of Puritans was accurate or not. To do so, the writer first attempts to define the term “Puritan,” as the latter is quite equivocal, then take some Puritans’ characteristics, namely hypocrisy and killjoy, as provided in the play, and analyze them in the light of the studies of some historians and scholars, experts on the post Reformation Puritanism, to demonstrate that Shakespeare’s view on Puritanism is completely caricatural.
Kirstine Moffat - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Puritan Paradox: An Annotated Bibliography of Puritan and Anti-Puritan New Zealand fiction, 1860-1940. Part 2: reactions against Puritanism
Kōtare : New Zealand Notes & Queries, 2000Co-Authors: Kirstine MoffatAbstract:This bibliography springs from my examination of the literary, social, and cultural legacy of Puritanism in pre-1940 New Zealand. A brief overview of the aims and methodology of the thesis which embodies that study is provided here as a prelude to the bibliography. The broad contention of my thesis is that Puritanism is a dominant social, cultural, and literary influence in New Zealand. This is supported by statements made by a range of social historians, popular polemical writers, and literary critics writing during the last 50 years. For example, Gordon McLauchlan comments that ‘a strong strain of Puritanism runs through the New Zealand character’ (1987: 51), Bill Pearson asserts that ‘we are the most puritan country in the world’ (209), and Lawrence Jones writes that ‘Puritanism has been a consistent concern of New Zealand writers’ (455). Flowing from this general claim are three specific contentions. Firstly, I argue that Puritanism is a complex phenomenon, consisting of antithetical elements. It is an historical force which has enduring influence. It is a body of theological principles, but also a secular code of conduct. It is, in both its theological and secular forms, conservative and authoritarian, yet radical and liberating. Secondly, I assert that the Puritan legacy in New Zealand reflects this complexity. Puritanism was imported to New Zealand in both its theological and its secular forms. The radical/conservative dichotomy is also marked in the New Zealand environment. Finally, I claim that in the literary sphere Puritanism has been a constant influence since the publication of Mrs J. E. Aylmer’s Distant Homes; or The Graham Family in New Zealand in 1862 and has inspired both pro-Puritan eulogies and anti-Puritan reactions. These specific contentions do not meet with the same degree of critical support as the general claim about the Puritan influence. When historians and critics such as McLauchlan and Pearson speak of Puritanism, they do not refer to the theological creed and social vision of the English Puritans or the Pilgrim Fathers, but only to a debased, secularised, conservative form of Puritanism. McLauchlan describes Puritanism as ‘anguished self-flagellation’ (1976: 17), Pearson defines it as ‘a contempt for love, a sour spit, a denial of life itself’ (225), and James K. Baxter regards it as an ‘austere anti-aesthetic angel’ (22). If social historians and literary critics define Puritanism in a
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The Puritan Paradox: An Annotated Bibliography of Puritan and Anti-Puritan New Zealand Fiction, 1860- 1940
2000Co-Authors: Kirstine MoffatAbstract:This bibliography springs from my examination of the literary, social, and cultural legacy of Puritanism in pre-1940 New Zealand. A brief overview of the aims and methodology of the thesis which embodies that study is provided here as a prelude to the bibliography. The broad contention of my thesis is that Puritanism is a dominant social, cultural, and literary influence in New Zealand. This is supported by statements made by a range of social historians, popular polemical writers, and literary critics writing during the last 50 years. For example, Gordon McLauchlan comments that ‘a strong strain of Puritanism runs through the New Zealand character’ (1987:51), Bill Pearson asserts that ‘we are the most puritan country in the world’ (209), and Lawrence Jones writes that ‘Puritanism has been a consistent concern of New Zealand writers.’ (455) Flowing from this general claim are three specific contentions. Firstly, I argue that Puritanism is a complex phenomenon, consisting of antithetical elements. It is an historical force which has enduring influence. It is a body of theological principles, but also a secular code of conduct. It is, in both its theological and secular forms, conservative and authoritarian, yet radical and liberating. Secondly, I assert that the Puritan legacy in New Zealand reflects this complexity. Puritanism was imported to New Zealand in both its theological and its secular forms. The radical/conservative dichotomy is also marked in the New Zealand environment. Finally, I claim that in the literary sphere Puritanism has been a constant influence since the publication of Mrs J. E. Aylmer’s Distant Homes; or The Graham Family in New Zealand in 1862 and has inspired both pro-Puritan eulogies and anti-Puritan reactions. These specific contentions do not meet with the same degree of critical support as the general claim about the Puritan influence. When historians and critics such as McLauchlan and Pearson speak of Puritanism, they do not refer to the theological creed and social vision of the English Puritans or the Pilgrim Fathers, but only to a debased, secularised, conservative form of Puritanism. McLauchlan describes Puritanism as ‘anguished self-flagellation’ (1976: 17), Pearson defines it as ‘a contempt for love, a sour spit, a denial of life itself’ (225), and James K. Baxter regards it as an ‘austere anti-aesthetic
Patrick Collinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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richard bancroft and elizabethan anti Puritanism
2013Co-Authors: Patrick CollinsonAbstract:Preface Alexandra Walsham and John Morrill 1. Introduction 2. Beginnings 3. Battle commences 4. The 1580s: Whitgift, Hatton and the High Commission 5. Martin Marprelate 6. What Bancroft found, and didn't find, in the godly ministers' studies 7. Out of the frying pan, into the fire and out again 8. Prayer, fasting, and the world of spirits: the other face 9. Possession, dispossession, fraud and polemics 10. Richard Bancroft, Robert Cecil and the Jesuits: the Bishop and his Catholic friends 11. Archbishop of Canterbury.
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elizabethan and jacobean Puritanism as forms of popular religious culture
1996Co-Authors: Patrick CollinsonAbstract:Traditionally, Puritanism and culture have been seen as polar opposites, so that an essay on puritan culture might seem to merit no more space than the topic of snakes in that book on Iceland which, according to Dr Samuel Johnson, contained a chapter consisting of the single sentence: ‘There are no snakes to be found anywhere in the island.’ Puritanism, it is assumed, had to do not with culture but with sermons and the sabbath, a bleak day of unalienated religion, punctuating a week otherwise filled by unrelenting toil. On the subject of holy days, or holidays, where Elizabethan culture is mostly to be sought, the puritan ‘Book of Discipline’ of the 1580s did indeed include a chapter of one sentence: ‘Holidays are conveniently to be abolished.’
J. Eales - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700
1996Co-Authors: Christopher Durston, J. EalesAbstract:Introduction: The Puritan Ethos, 1560-1700 C.Durston & J.Eales - Elizabethan and Jacobean Puritanism as Forms of Popular Religious Culture P.Collinson - Puritans and the Church Courts, 1560-1640 M.Ingram - Puritans and Iconoclasm, 1560-1660 M.Aston - The Puritan Death-bed, c.1560-c.1660 R. Houlbrooke - 'A Charitable Christian Hatred': The Godly and their Enemies in the 1630s P. Lake - A Road to Revolution: The Continuity of Puritanism 1559-1642 J. Eales - Puritan Rule and the Failure of Cultural Revolution 1645-1660 C. Durston - From Puritanism to Dissent 1660-1700 J. Spurr
Awej For Translation & Literary Studies - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Representation of Puritans in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
2018Co-Authors: Awej For Translation & Literary Studies, Rachid MehdiAbstract:This article is a study on the representation of Puritans in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, one of his most popular comic play in the modern theatre. In mocking Malvolio’s morality and ridiculous behaviour, Shakespeare wanted to denounce Puritans’ sober society in early modern England. Indeed, Puritans were depicted in the play as being selfish, idiot, hypocrite, and killjoy. In the same way, many other writers of different generations, obviously influenced by Shakespeare, have espoused his views and consequently contributed to promote this anti-Puritan literature, which is still felt today. This article discusses whether Shakespeare’s portrayal of Puritans was accurate or not. To do so, the writer first attempts to define the term “Puritan,” as the latter is quite equivocal, then take some Puritans’ characteristics, namely hypocrisy and killjoy, as provided in the play, and analyze them in the light of the studies of some historians and scholars, experts on the post Reformation Puritanism, to demonstrate that Shakespeare’s view on Puritanism is completely caricatural.
