The Bible in Shakespeare
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 August 2013
- ISBN 9780199677610
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages398 pages
- Size 219x148x29 mm
- Weight 604 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
The Bible in Shakespeare is a critical study of the links between the two great pillars of English culture, the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.
MoreLong description:
Despite the widespread popular sense that the Bible and the works of Shakespeare are the two great pillars of English culture, and despite the long-standing critical recognition that the Bible was a major source of Shakespeare's allusions and references, there has never been a full-length, critical study of the Bible in Shakespeare's plays. The Bible in Shakespeare addresses this serious deficiency. Early chapters describe the post-Reformation explosion of Bible translation and the development of English biblical culture, compare the Church and the Theatre as cultural institutions (particularly in terms of the audience's auditory experience), and describe in general terms Shakespeare's allusive practice. Later chapters are devoted to interpreting Shakespeare's use of biblical allusion in a wide variety of plays, across the spectrum of genres: King Lear and Job, Macbeth and Revelation, the Crucifixion in the Roman Histories, Falstaff's anarchic biblical allusions, and variations on Adam, Eve, and the Fall throughout Shakespeare's dramatic career, from Romeo and Juliet to The Winter's Tale.
The Bible in Shakespeare offers a significant new perspective on Shakespeare's plays, and reveals how the culture of early modern England was both dependent upon and fashioned out of a deep engagement with the interpreted Bible. The book's wide-ranging and interdisciplinary nature will interest scholars in a variety of fields: Shakespeare and English literature, allusion and intertextuality, theater studies, history, religious culture, and biblical interpretation. With growing scholarly interest in the impact of religion on early modern culture, the time is ripe for such a publication.
One of the many excellent features of Hannibal Hamlin's introduction to The Bible in Shakespeare is his emphasis on the spoken as well as the written word...In a book happily free of fashionable jargon, and and intended for the "educated general reader as well as the academic community", Hamlin passes from a survey of Shakespears's allusive practices to a detailed study of his use of Gensis 1-3.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Shakespeare's Allusive Practice, Cultural and Historical Background
Reformation Biblical Culture
A Critical History of the Bible in Shakespeare
Allusion: Theory, History, and Shakespeare's Practice
Part II: Biblical Allusion in the Plays
Variations on Genesis 1-3
Creative Anachronism: Biblical Allusions in the Roman Histories
Damnable Iteration: Falstaff, Master of Biblical Allusion
The Great Doom's Image: Macbeth and Apocalypse
The Patience of Lear: King Lear and Job
Conclusion
