Bible in Shakespeare

The Bible in Shakespeare is a critical study of the links between the two great pillars of English culture, the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

About the author

Hannibal Hamlin is Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Huntington Library. His work on the Bible and English literature includes Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature, The Sidney Psalter: Psalms of Philip and Mary Sidney, and The King James Bible after Four Hundred Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences, as well as the Folger Shakespeare Library-Bodleian Library-Harry Ransom Center exhibition, Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible. He is editor of the journal Reformation.

Summary

The Bible in Shakespeare is a critical study of the links between the two great pillars of English culture, the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

Additional text

Hamlin has built an impressive (and I suspect indispensable) bridge between two of the world's desert-island books.

Product details

• Authors: Hannibal Hamlin, Hannibal (Professor of English Hamlin, Hamlin Hannibal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780198817413
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881741-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Christianity, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean