Transubstantiating Bottom: Eucharistic Weavings in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This article offers Nick Bottom, the donkey-headed weaver of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as a textual and performative site that echoes and amplifies Eucharistic theologies. It interprets him, and Shakespeare’s comedy, alongside Reformation theology and current phenomenology, especially Jean-Luc Mari...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2020]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 3, Pages: 358-377 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B Shakespeare B English Reformation B Eucharist B Sacramental Theology |
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| Summary: | This article offers Nick Bottom, the donkey-headed weaver of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as a textual and performative site that echoes and amplifies Eucharistic theologies. It interprets him, and Shakespeare’s comedy, alongside Reformation theology and current phenomenology, especially Jean-Luc Marion’s concept of saturated phenomena. Bottom and the Eucharist are signs, but they frustrate interpretive methods grounded in sense perception. Instead, they inaugurate unreasonable and transformative encounters of love. While this article contributes to the study of England’s religious and cultural history, more crucially, it offers a contemporary spiritual hermeneutic for interpreting the sacramental poetics of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2020.0038 |