Shakespeares Biblical Knowledge

Author : Naseeb Shaheen
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611493730
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays written by Naseeb Shaheen and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture. Not only is the range of his biblical references impressive, but also the aptness with which he makes them. Hamlet and Othello each have more than fifty biblical references. No study of Shakespeare's plays is complete that ignores Shakespeare's use of scripture. The Bibles that Shakespeare knew, however, were not those that are in use today. By the time the King James Bible appeared in 1611, Shakespeare's career was all but over, and the Anglican liturgy that is evident in his plays is likewise one that few persons are acquainted with. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the English Bibles of Shakespeare's day, notes their similarities and differences, and indicates which version the playwright knew best. The thorny question of what constitutes a valid biblical reference is also discussed. The study of Shakespeare's biblical references is not based on secondary sources. The author owned one of the world's largest collections of early English bibles, including over one hundred copies of the Geneva bible and numerous editions of other Bibles, prayer books, and books of homilies of Shakespeare's day. To be of real worth, a study of Shakespeare's biblical references should also enable the reader to determine which references Shakespeare borrowed from his plot sources and which he added from his own memory as part of his design for the play. The author studies every source that Shakespeare is known to have read or consulted before writing each play and has examined the biblical references in those sources. Shaheen then points out which biblical references in his literary sources Shakespeare accepted, and how he adapted them in his plays. This information is especially valuable when assessing the theological meanings that are sometimes imposed on his plays, meanings that often go beyond what Shakespeare intended or what his audience must have understood. Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays is considerably broader in scope than any other study of its kind and provides the scholarly checks and balances in dealing with the subject that previous studies lacked. .

Author : Richmond Samuel Howe Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge and Use of the Book of Common Prayer, as Exemplified in the Plays of the First Folio written by Richmond Samuel Howe Noble and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richmond Samuel Howe Noble
Publisher : Buccaneer Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge and Use of the Book of Common Prayer, as Exemplified in the Plays of the First Folio written by Richmond Samuel Howe Noble and published by Buccaneer Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Marx
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198184409
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Bible written by Steven Marx and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide tofurther reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. Despite the presence of hundreds of Biblical allusions in Shakespeare, this is the first book to explore the pattern and significance of those references in relation to a selection of his greatest plays. It reveals the Bible as a rich source for Shakespeare's uses of myth, history, comedy andtragedy, his techniques of staging, and his ways of characterizing rulers, magicians and teachers in the image of the Bible's multifaceted God. This book also discloses ways in which Shakespeare's plays offer both pious and irreverent interpretations of the Scriptures comparable to those presentedby his contemporary writers, artists, philosophers and politicians. After an opening chapter comparing the Bible as a fragmented yet unified collection of 46 books with the fragmented yet unified First Folio collection of Shakespeare's 36 plays, each of the following six chapters matches a book of the Bible with a representative play: the creation myth of Genesiswith the first play in the Folio, The Tempest, the historical epic of Exodus with Henry V, the tragedy of Job with King Lear, the tragicomedy of the Gospel of Matthew with Measure for Measure, the homiletic disputation of Paul's Epistle to the Romans with The Merchant of Venice, and the apocalypticmasque of the Book of Revelation with The Tempest again. Though its subject matter and style appeal to a broad audience, this book is grounded in recent scholarship in Shakespeare and Biblical studies. Its intertextual readings are framed by descriptions of the historical circumstances of each work's composition and reception and by an emergent theory ofallusion as a principle of creation and understanding.

Author : Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199677611
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible in Shakespeare written by Hannibal Hamlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about allusions to the Bible in Shakespeare's plays. It argues that such allusions are frequent, deliberate, and significant, and that the study of these allusions is repaid by a deeper understanding of the plays." - Introduction.

Author : Richmond Samuel Howe Noble
Publisher : Gordon PressPubs
ISBN 13 : 9780849010392
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge written by Richmond Samuel Howe Noble and published by Gordon PressPubs. This book was released on 1940-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ira B. Zinman
Publisher : World Wisdom Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Bible written by Ira B. Zinman and published by World Wisdom Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent to which Shakespeare derived the inspiration for his plays and Sonnets from the Bible has sparked debate for centuries. Although much research has been done on Shakespeare's plays, a comprehensive analysis of his Sonnets has been absent, until now. This book gives a detailed examination of Shakespeare's Sonnets, identifying their underlying spiritual themes at the religious and scriptural levels of interpretation.

Author : Charles Wordsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible written by Charles Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Wordsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible written by Charles Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Oser
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235103
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Humanism in Shakespeare written by Lee Oser and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespeare’s theological sensitivity, Oser places Shakespeare’s work in the “radical middle,” the dialectical opening between the sacred and the secular where great writing can flourish. According to Oser, the radical middle was and remains a site of cultural originality, as expressed through mimetic works of art intended for a catholic (small “c”) audience. It describes the conceptual space where Shakespeare was free to engage theological questions, and where his Christian skepticism could serve his literary purposes. Oser reviews the rival cases for a Protestant Shakespeare and for a Catholic Shakespeare, but leaves the issue open, focusing, instead, on how Shakespeare exploits artistic resources that are specific to Christianity, including the classical-Christian rhetorical tradition. The scope of the book ranges from an introductory survey of the critical field as it now stands, to individual chapters on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, the Henriad, Hamlet, and King Lear. Writing with a deep sense of literary history, Oser holds that mainstream literary criticism has created a false picture of Shakespeare by secularizing him and misconstruing the nature of his art. Through careful study of the plays, Oser recovers a Shakespeare who is less vulnerable to the winds of academic and political fashion, and who is a friend to the enduring project of humanistic education. Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature is both eminently readable and a work of consequence.