{"product_id":"hippolytas-view-some-christian-aspects-of-shakespeares-plays-paperback","title":"Hippolyta's View: Some Christian Aspects of Shakespeare's Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. A. Jr. Bryant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars have already demonstrated that Shakespeare 's language abounds in Biblical allusions and references, but Mr. Bryant now undertakes to show us how such details may bear on the full meaning of the plays. Seeking to interpret Shakespeare's plays as Christian poetry, Mr. Bryant has developed in this significant work a new critical approach which may have far-reaching consequences for future Shakespearean scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an introductory essay the author shows that the typological view of Scripture was a familiar one to the Christians of Shakespeare 's time; he suggests that for Shakespeare, as for many of his contemporaries, the Bible had only one subject--Christ--to which everything in both Testaments in some way referred. This interpretation of Scripture, Mr. Bryant believes, had an appreciable effect on Shakespeare's handling of many of the traditional stories on which he based his plays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author then demonstrates, in twelve essays, how typological patterns may be traced in the plays and how Biblical allusions suggest and strengthen these analogies. In both \u003ci\u003eRichard II\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, Mr. Bryant finds references to the story of Cain and Abel which give a new focus to his reading of these plays. Passages from the Gospels bear upon his interpretations of \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e, and the epistles of St. Paul upon his readings of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e and the two parts of \u003ci\u003eHenry IV\u003c\/i\u003e. Mr. Bryant then attacks the popular idea that tragedy is incompatible with Christian doctrine; his essay defining Christian tragedy is illustrated in chapters on \u003ci\u003eMacbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e. The concluding essays deal with \u003ci\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e as tragicomedies given depth by their Christian materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Bryant's fresh and challenging interpretations of these representative tragedies, histories, and comedies will not meet with universal assent, but they are certain to provoke the interest of both scholarly and lay readers. The increasing number of students who wish to trace the relationships between secular literature and Christian thought will find in this pioneer work a new insight into the nature of Christian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJ. A. Bryant Jr., \u003c\/b\u003e professor emeritus of English at the University of Kentucky, is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Uses of Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century Southern Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48265302638813,"sku":"9780813151557","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/PBsadQmfWQ9780813151557.webp?v=1785166097","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/hippolytas-view-some-christian-aspects-of-shakespeares-plays-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}