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The gospel according to Shakespeare / Piero Boitani ; translated by Vittorio Montemaggi and Rachel Jacoff.
Van Pelt Library PR3012 .B6513 2013
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3012 .B6513 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boitani, Piero.
- Standardized Title:
- Il Vangelo secondo Shakespeare. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Religion.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Religion.
- Bible--In literature.
- Bible.
- Christian drama, English--History and criticism.
- Christian drama, English.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 156 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- English language edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- Translated from Italian to English.
- Summary:
- In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare's "rescripturing" of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and participation, and that many of his plays constitute their own original testament, insofar as they translate the good news into human terms. In Hamlet and King Lear, he suggests, Shakespeare's "New Testament" is merely hinted at, and faith, salvation, and peace are only glimpsed from far away. But in Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, the themes of compassion and forgiveness, transcendence, immanence, the role of the deity, resurrection, and epiphany are openly, if often obliquely, staged. The Christian Gospels and the Christian Bible are the signposts of this itinerary. Originally published in 2009, Boitani's Il Vangelo Secondo Shakespeare was awarded the 2010 De Sanctis Prize, a prestigious Italian literary award. Now available for the first time in an English translation, The Gospel according to Shakespeare brings to a broad scholarly and nonscholarly audience Boitani's insights into the current themes dominating the study of Shakespeare's literary theology. It will be of special interest to general readers interested in Shakespeare's originality and religious perspective.
- Contents:
- Amen for the fall of a sparrow
- God's spies
- Music of the spheres
- Divineness
- Resurrection
- Epiphany.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268022358
- 0268022356
- OCLC:
- 821025217
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