The Bible on the Shakespearean stage : cultures of interpretation in Reformation England / edited by Thomas Fulton (Rutgers University), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Fulton, Thomas (Thomas Chandler), editor.

Poole, Kristen, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge--Bible.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Physical Description:

xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The Bible was everywhere in Shakespeare's England. Through sermons, catechisms, treatises, artwork, literature and, of course, biblical reading itself, the stories and language of the Bible pervaded popular and elite culture. In recent years, scholars have demonstrated how thoroughly biblical allusions saturate Shakespearean plays. But Shakespeare's audiences were not simply well versed in the Bible's content - they were also steeped in the practices and methods of biblical interpretation. Reformation and counter-reformation debate focused not just on the biblical text, but - crucially - on how to read the text. The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage is the first volume to integrate the study of Shakespeare's plays with the vital history of Reformation practices of biblical interpretation. Bringing together the foremost international scholars in the field of 'Shakespeare and the Bible', these essays explore Shakespeare's engagement with scriptural interpretation in the tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances.

Contents:

Introduction : popular hermeneutics in Shakespeare's London / Thomas Fulton, Kristen Poole

The Bible in transition in the age of Shakespeare : a European perspective / Bruce Gordon

The trouble with translation : paratexts and England's bestselling New Testament / Aaron T. Pratt

John 6, m easure for measure, and the complexities of the literal sense / Jay Zysk

Words of diverse significations : Hamlet's puns, amphibology, and allegorical hermeneutics / Kristen Poole

England's Jerusalem in Shakespeare's Henriad / Beatrice Groves

Discontented harmonies : words against words in Pomfret Castle / Tom Bishop

Titus Andronicus and the rhetoric of Lamentation / Adrian Streete

The Acts of Pericles : Shakespeare's biblical romance / Hannibal Hamlin

Finding Pygmalion in the bible : classical and biblical allusion in The Winters Tale / Richard Strier

Shylock in the lion's den : enacting exegesis in The Merchant of Venice / Shaina Trapedo

Maimed rites and whirling words in Hamlet / Jesse M Lander

Political theology from the pulpit and the stage : Sir Thomas More, Richard II, and Henry V / Thomas Fulton

Afterword : Shakespeare's biblical virtues / Julia Reinhard Lupton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781107194236

1107194237

OCLC:

1026332134