The Gospel According to Shakespeare
University of Notre Dame Press · Print & ebook · January 9, 2014
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- Who it’s for
- Piero Boitani traces how Shakespeare’s plays translate Gospel themes into human terms.
- Themes
- Shakespeare and the Gospels, Compassion and forgiveness, Faith, salvation, and resurrection
- Genres
- Shakespeare Studies, Religion in Literature, Religion in the Arts
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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.
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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.
Shakespeare and the Gospels
Piero Boitani traces how Shakespeare’s plays translate Gospel themes into human terms.
Come here for
- Shakespeare’s readings of the Gospels
- Compassion, forgiveness, and resurrection in four late plays
Expect
- Close attention to faith, salvation, and peace in Hamlet and King Lear
- Open, often oblique staging of religious themes in four later plays
Where it sits
| Shakespeare Studies | 83% |
|---|---|
| Religion in Literature | 42% |
| Religion in the Arts | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Shakespeare Studies
- 16th-Century Literary Criticism
- Religion in the Arts
- Authors
- Piero Boitani
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Published
- January 9, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Shakespeare and the Gospels · Compassion and forgiveness · Faith, salvation, and resurrection
- Reading lane
- Shakespeare Studies