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

  • Accession number

    83429496

  • Class

    65.05/BIB

  • ISBN

    9781107194236

  • Physical description

    xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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.