30+ Books for 30,000 views: A Celebration

This Monday I noticed:
My blog has had more than 30k views from 83+ countries in 3.5 years!

Thanks for reading!

To celebrate, here are 30+ books related to Shakespeare/Hamlet/Bible/Religion, some of which I especially liked; others I wrestled with, tolerated, but found useful;
plus a few I’ve recently acquired and am excited to read ( * ).

By author:

Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness
Sarah Beckwith (2011)

Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden
Catherine Belsey (1999)

Murder Most Foul: Hamlet through the Ages
David Bevington (2011)

Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
T.G. Bishop (1996) *

Hamlet as Minister and Scourge
Fredson Bowers (1989)

The Bible in Shakespeare
William Burgess (1903)

Shakespeare and the Holy Scripture,
Thomas Carter (1905)

Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama
eds. Eva von Contzen, Chanita Goodblatt (2020)

Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (3rd edition)
Juliet Dusinberre (2003)

The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake
Harold Fisch (1999)

Hamlet in Purgatory
Stephen Greenblatt (2001)

Hamlet and the Distracted Globe
Andrew Gurr (1978)

The Bible in Shakespeare
Hannibal Hamlin (2013)

The Character of Hamlet
John Erskine Hankins (1941)

Hamlet’s Choice
Linda Kay Hoff (1988)

Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Maurice Hunt (2004)

A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion
David Scott Kastan (2014)

The Biblical Covenant in Shakespeare
by Mary Jo Kietzman (2018)

Shakespeare’s Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England
Jeffrey Knapp (2004)

Hamlet’s Choice
Peter Lake (2020)

Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Rhodri Lewis (2017)

Killing the King
Maynard Mack, Jr. (1973)

Puzzling Shakespeare
Leah Marcus (1988)

Shakespeare and the Bible
Steven Marx (2000)

Shakespeare's Hybrid Faith
Jean-Christophe Mayer (2006) *

Biblical Influences in Shakespeare’s Great Tragedies
Peter Milward (1987)

Shakespeare’s Biblical Knowledge
Richmond Noble (1935)

Censorship and Interpretation:
The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England,
Annabel Patterson (1984)

Hamlet and Revenge (2nd edition)
Eleanor Prosser (1977)

Liturgy and Literature in the Making of Protestant England
Timothy Rosendale (2007)

The Body in Mystery:
The Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England
Jennifer Rust (2014)

Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays
Naseeb Shaheen (1999)

The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity
Debora Shuger (1994) *

Shakespeare’s Common Prayers:
The Book fo Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
Daniel Swift

Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World:
An Alternative History of the Reformation
Nicholas Terpstra (2015) *

Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage
Brian Walsh (2016) *

Secret Shakespeare
Richard Wilson (2004)

Shakespeare’s Knowledge and Use of the Bible
Charles Wordsworth (1864)


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Disclaimer: If and when I quote or paraphrase bible passages or mention religion in many of my blog posts, I do not intend to promote any religion over another, nor am I attempting to promote religious belief in general; only to explore how the Bible and religion influenced Shakespeare, his plays, and his age.
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My current project is a book tentatively titled Hamlet’s Bible, about biblical allusions and plot echoes in Hamlet.

Below is a link to a list of some of my top posts (“greatest hits”), including a description of my book project (last item on the list):

https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/12/top-20-hamlet-bible-posts.html

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