From Voltaire's quakers to John Boyle's methodists: religious dispute, bardolatry, and "patriot enthusiasm"
Through the prism of Voltaire's "Letters on the quakers" (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's "The Greek theatre" (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/63520 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/63520 https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12944 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Bardolatry Enthusiasm John Boyle Methodists Quakers Shakespeare Voltaire Filología Philology |
| Sumario: | Through the prism of Voltaire's "Letters on the quakers" (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's "The Greek theatre" (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of edgling bardolatry. Further, as one strand within "patriot enthusiasm", by instituting a national congregation of admirers, the surrogate faith of bardolatry achieved in part the comprehension rule dout by the Toleration Act (1689), while its irrationality sheltered the supernatural onits eviction from rationalized religion. |
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