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Book Synopsis Shakespeare, God, and Me by : William Hamilton
Download or read book Shakespeare, God, and Me written by William Hamilton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is, in part, a record of a passion by one who is not a proper Shakespeare scholar. It contains some conventional literary criticism (some harsh words on Portia, and an analysis of the Credo in Verdi's Otello) and some more eccentric material: a love letter to Cordelia, a short story based roughly on Macbeth, and a long personal essay on King Lear. Probably not enough "God" for the pious.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery by : Jem Bloomfield
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery written by Jem Bloomfield and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Shakespeare write Psalm 46 of the King James Bible? In "Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery" Jem Bloomfield investigates the literary legend that the famous playwright left his mark on the Authorized Version. He delves into the historical, textual and literary evidence, showing that the story isn't true - but that there are much more engrossing stories to be told about Shakespeare and the Bible. Whilst amassing the evidence against the Psalm 46 legend, Bloomfield asks why people want to believe it. What does this myth tell us about the connections between Shakespeare and the Bible? What does it reveal about people's views of religion and culture? In an intriguing investigation, Bloomfield ranges from the theatres of sixteenth-century England to the churches of the modern United States. On the way the reader is shown exiled Protestants becoming illegal Bible-smugglers, Edwardian schoolboys making jokes about the Book of Daniel, Lady Mary Sidney writing poetry inspired by the Psalms, Rudyard Kipling taking instructions from his own personal daemon, Lancelot Andrewes declaring that Jesus was a gardener, and other remarkable scenes from literary history. "Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery" argues that the truth is always odder and more fascinating than any conspiracy theory. In debunking the legend of Shakespeare's hand in the King James Bible, it offers the reader a glimpse into the real mysteries which these books and their histories possess. Jem Bloomfield is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include articles in scholarly journals on literature, theatre and religion, and the book "Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible."
Book Synopsis A Will to Believe by : David Scott Kastan
Download or read book A Will to Believe written by David Scott Kastan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded? I should say, religion. If, What is the second? I should say, religion. If, What the third? I should still say, religion." But if religion was recognized as the "chief thing in a Commonwealth," we have been less certain what it does in Shakespeare's plays. Written and performed in a culture in which religion was indeed inescapable, the plays have usually been seen either as evidence of Shakespeare's own disinterested secularism or, more recently, as coded signposts to his own sectarian commitments. Based upon the inaugural series of the Oxford-Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2008, A Will to Believe offers a thoughtful, surprising, and often moving consideration of how religion actually functions in them: not as keys to Shakespeare's own faith but as remarkably sensitive registers of the various ways in which religion charged the world in which he lived. The book shows what we know and can't know about Shakespeare's own beliefs, and demonstrates, in a series of wonderfully alert and agile readings, how the often fraught and vertiginous religious environment of Post-Reformation England gets refracted by the lens of Shakespeare's imagination.
Download or read book Shakespeare's God written by Ivor Morris and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972. Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study places Christianity's commentary on the human condition side by side with what tragedy reveals about it. This pattern is identified using the writings of Christian thinkers from Augustine to the present day. The pattern in the chief phenomena of literary tragedy is also traced
Book Synopsis Haunt Me Still by : Jennifer Lee Carrell
Download or read book Haunt Me Still written by Jennifer Lee Carrell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern heroine of the national bestseller Interred with Their Bones returns, in a thriller centering on Shakespeare's eeriest play. A legendary theatrical curse . . . A rune-engraved blade, a mysterious mirror, and an ancient cauldron . . . And a ritually murdered body laid out in the manner of ancient pagan burials. Kate Stanley, Jennifer Lee Carrell's dauntless Shakespearean scholarturned- director, made a memorable-and New York Times bestselling- debut in Interred with Their Bones. Having chased down her mentor's killer (and recovering one of Shakespeare's lost plays in the process), Kate's fame as a director with an expertise in "occult Shakespeare" catapults her-and Ben Pearl, her partner in crime-solving-into a new production of Macbeth, showcasing a fabled collection of objects relating both to the play and the historical Scottish king for whom it is named. The Bard's witch-haunted play is famously cursed, its reputation for malevolence so strong that many actors refuse to quote or even name the play aloud. And as rehearsals begin at the foot of Scotland's Dunsinnan Hill, it doesn't take long for the curse to stir. Strange references to the boy actor who first played Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's day-and died in the role-pop up. A trench atop Dunsinnan Hill is found filled with blood, and a severed human thumb turns up among the props. And Kate begins sleepwalking, waking early one morning alone atop the hill, her hands smeared with blood. Kate has no memory of how she got there, but later that day a local woman is found dead on the hill in circumstances that suggest not just ritual murder but ancient pagan sacrifice. With the police more focused on Kate as a suspect than as a possible future victim, she and Ben find themselves in a desperate race to discover a lost version of Macbeth, said to contain rituals of witchcraft aimed at conjuring demonic forces to gain forbidden knowledge. However much Kate would like to dismiss such rituals as superstition, someone else appears willing to kill for them-and for the manuscript said to spell them out. Marked for sacrifice, can Kate Stanley uncover the killer before she becomes the next victim? Watch a Video
Book Synopsis God Keep Lead Out of Me by : Oliver Ford Davies
Download or read book God Keep Lead Out of Me written by Oliver Ford Davies and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seeing Eye written by C. S. Lewis and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1986-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.S. Lewis presents an eloquent and colorful defense of Christianity for both devotees and critics . . . in a collection of essays composed over the last twenty years of his life. * On Christianity and culture * On religion -- is it reality or substitute? * On ethics * On the Psalms * On the language of religion * On petitionary prayer * And more! "An excellent introduction to the thought and personality of this engaging Christian writer." -- Christianity Today
Book Synopsis God, the Devil and Me by : Alf Taylor
Download or read book God, the Devil and Me written by Alf Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties. At once darkly humorous and achingly tragic, God, The Devil and Me tells of the life and desperation of the young children forced into the care of the Spanish Nuns and Brothers who ran the Mission. Their lives made up of varying degrees of cruelty and punishments, these children were the 'little black devils' that God and religion forgot. Written with an acerbic and brutal wit, Alf intersperses dark childhood memories with a Monty Pythonesque retelling of the Bible, in which Peter is an alcoholic and Judas is a good guy.As a child, underfed, poorly clothed and missing his family, Alf sought refuge in the library in the company of Shakespeare and Michelangelo. He writes with joy about the camaraderie of the boys, their love of sport and their own company, but also notes that many descended into despair upon leaving. Most died early. Alf Taylor is one of the 'lucky ones'.'At once horrific and hilarious, this ''little black devil'' has created a work unique not just in Aboriginal writing, but in Australian literature altogether.' - Dennis Haskell, Australian poet, critic and academic
Download or read book King Lear written by Jeffrey Kahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Book Synopsis God in Shakespeare by : Charles Downing
Download or read book God in Shakespeare written by Charles Downing and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...greatest benefit which he can confer upon the State; and the love of the one is overbalanced in his mind by the love of the many. " BRUTUS. Yet see you but our hands, And this, the bleeding business they have done; Our hearts you see not, they are pitiful, And pity to the general wrong of Rome, "BRUTUS. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer, not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." " Amour. This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them." The respectable Brutus lacks ability and foresight, as in generalship so in statesmanship. He attacks at Philippi against the better judgment of Cassius. He allows Antony to live, and to harangue the populace, also against Cassius' more prudent advice. His intelli gence is not sufiicient to enable him to perceive that his blow at Caesar, in spite of his hopes, will not be for the general weal. The tide of opinion has so set in for monarchy, that Brutus himself, having slain Caesar upon rigid republican principles, is hailed as Caesar by the multitude. His action, atrocious in itself, has not the justification that it could save the State. It could only bring on political convulsion and civil war, only--"Teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague the inventor." Macbeth. The less virtuous, but abler and more far-seeing Antony, utters a true prophecy of the proscriptions, battles, and suicides which followed Brutus' crime, and fill the last two acts of the play. " ANTONY. Over thy wounds now do. I pr0phesy, --A curse shall...
Book Synopsis The Bard and the Bible by : Bob Hostetler
Download or read book The Bard and the Bible written by Bob Hostetler and published by Worthy Inspired. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 Devotions pairing Scripture from the King James Bible and lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Includes little known history, curiosities, and facts about words introduced or used in new ways by Shakespeare.
Book Synopsis Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'And when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars.' This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Language by : Frank Kermode
Download or read book Shakespeare's Language written by Frank Kermode and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Gods by : Virginia Mason Vaughan
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Gods written by Virginia Mason Vaughan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare's many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Ceres) that enhance his readers' and audiences' understanding and enjoyment of his work. Vaughan explains their historical context, from their origins in ancient Greece to their appropriation in Rome and their role in medieval and early modern mythography. The book also illuminates Shakespeare's classical allusions by comparison to the work of contemporaries like Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson and Thomas Heywood and explores allusive patterns that repeat throughout Shakespeare's canon. Each chapter concludes with a more focused reading of one or two plays in which the god appears or serves as an underlying motif. Shakespeare and the Gods highlights throughout the gods' participation in western constructions of gender as well as classical myth's role in changing attitudes toward human violence and sexuality.
Download or read book Shakespeare's God written by Ivor Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972. Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study places Christianity's commentary on the human condition side by side with what tragedy reveals about it. This pattern is identified using the writings of Christian thinkers from Augustine to the present day. The pattern in the chief phenomena of literary tragedy is also traced
Book Synopsis As You Like it by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Complete Handbook of Literary Forms in the Bible by : Leland Ryken
Download or read book A Complete Handbook of Literary Forms in the Bible written by Leland Ryken and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To truly understand God’s Word, we must know both what it says (content) and how it says it (form). This accessible guide features over 250 alphabetically arranged entries explaining common literary forms found in the Bible. Each entry contains a succinct definition, helpful illustrations, and a representative list of passages where that particular literary form is present. More than merely a dictionary, this indispensable resource will help Bible readers better understand the underlying structure of Scripture—giving a clearer shape and deeper meaning to each and every page of God’s Word.
