Hannibal Hamlin on how Biblical Elizabethan culture was

FROM HANNIBAL HAMLIN'S INTRODUCTION (SEE PIC BELOW) to his book, "The Bible in Shakespeare," which offers a systematic study of Shakespeare's biblical allusions in a wide array of his plays - but no focused analysis of many/most such allusions in a single play (as I'm attempting with Hamlet).

Even audience members and readers of the plays who notice some of the biblical allusions often do not recognize how profoundly biblical Elizabethan culture was, but Hamlin grasps this, as the following sample from the first page of his introduction shows. If you're a fan of Shakespeare and the bible, Hamlin's book is a good investment. If you can't afford it, try local libraries, or inter-library loans. The samples available on Google Books are incomplete, and a scholar like Hamlin deserves to have his work supported, and not to have Google Books reproduce major parts of it by way of legal loopholes.

If you work in a college, university, or theater with a resource library, make sure your library has a copy of Hamlin's book, as well as Naseeb Shaheem's "Biblical references in Shakespeare's Plays."

These books are not the last word. They do not interpret any whole play in light of both obvious and subtle biblical allusions. but they are a start.

(CLICK BELOW TO READ THE WHOLE SAMPLE. )


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Links to a description of my book project:
On LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eJGBtqV
On this blog: https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2017/05/hamlets-bible-my-book-project-im.html

[Originally posted around the week of 7/3/17 on LinkedIn]