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The Faith of William Shakespeare

by Graham Holderness

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  • Publisher: SPCK

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William Shakespeare stills stands head and shoulders above any other author in the English language, a position that is unlikely ever to change. Yet it is often said that we know very little about him - and that applies as much to what he believed as it does to the rest of his biography. Or does it? In this authoritative new study, Graham Holderness takes us through the context of Shakespeare's life, times of religious and political turmoil, and looks at what we do know of Shakespeare the Anglican. But then he goes beyond that, and mines the plays themselves, not just for the words of the characters, but for the concepts, themes and language which Shakespeare was himself steeped in - the language of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Considering particularly such plays as Richard ll, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale, Holderness shows how the ideas of Catholicism come up against those of Luther and Calvin; how Christianity was woven deep into Shakespeare's psyche, and how he brought it again and again to his art.
The Faith of William Shakespeare and The Faith of William Shakespeare
The Faith of William ShakespeareThe Faith of William Shakespeare

  • Author

    Graham Holderness

  • Book Format

    eBook (Christian360)

  • Publisher

    SPCK

  • Published

    November 2016

  • ISBN

    9780745968926

  • ISBN-10

    0745968929

  • Eden Code

    4785403

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