SCIENCE INFLUENCED & RESTRICTED ANALYSIS OF BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS —
AND INFLUENCED THE PLAYS AS WELL
The long shadow of science had a restrictive influence on Shakespeare critics who tried to catalog biblical allusions in his plays: Perhaps caught up in enthusiasm for the scientific method, some literary scholars rejected what they viewed as too-subjective biblical allusions and influences (paraphrase and plot echo), and favored instead what seemed to them more like objective data: allusions that contained exact or nearly-exact bible quotes that could be matched with bible translations available at the time: See books by Charles Wordsworth (1864), Thomas Carter (1905), Richmond Noble (1935), and Naseeb Shaheem (1987-1999).
Yet in “Truth and Method,” his famous book on interpretation/hermeneutics, Hans Georg Gadamer stressed that the arts and scholars of the arts should not feel obligated to conform to so-called scientific methods.
I agree. Also, Natalie Elliot, tutor at St John’s University in Santa Fe, NM, writes insightfully of science’s influence on Shakespeare; well worth the read!
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shakespeares-worlds-of-science
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[Originally posted around the week of 8/20/18
on LinkedIn]
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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
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#Shakespeare #Bible #Hamlet #Literature #LiteraryCriticism #Drama #Theatre #EarlyModern #religion #Renaissance #EnglishLiterature
AND INFLUENCED THE PLAYS AS WELL
The long shadow of science had a restrictive influence on Shakespeare critics who tried to catalog biblical allusions in his plays: Perhaps caught up in enthusiasm for the scientific method, some literary scholars rejected what they viewed as too-subjective biblical allusions and influences (paraphrase and plot echo), and favored instead what seemed to them more like objective data: allusions that contained exact or nearly-exact bible quotes that could be matched with bible translations available at the time: See books by Charles Wordsworth (1864), Thomas Carter (1905), Richmond Noble (1935), and Naseeb Shaheem (1987-1999).
Yet in “Truth and Method,” his famous book on interpretation/hermeneutics, Hans Georg Gadamer stressed that the arts and scholars of the arts should not feel obligated to conform to so-called scientific methods.
I agree. Also, Natalie Elliot, tutor at St John’s University in Santa Fe, NM, writes insightfully of science’s influence on Shakespeare; well worth the read!
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shakespeares-worlds-of-science
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[Originally posted around the week of 8/20/18
on LinkedIn]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
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#Shakespeare #Bible #Hamlet #Literature #LiteraryCriticism #Drama #Theatre #EarlyModern #religion #Renaissance #EnglishLiterature
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