More Things in Heaven and Earth: Shakespeare, Theology, and the Interplay of Texts Fiddes Paul S.
Shakespeare's plays are filled with religious references and spiritual concerns. His characters--like Hamlet in this book's title--speak the language of belief. Theology can enable the modern reader…
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Shakespeare's plays are filled with religious references and spiritual concerns. His characters--like Hamlet in this book's title--speak the language of belief. Theology can enable the modern reader to see more clearly the ways in which Shakespeare draws on the Bible, doctrine, and the religious controversies of the long English Reformation. But as Oxford don Paul Fiddes shows in his intertextual approach, the theological thought of our own time can in turn be shaped by the reading of Shakespeare's texts and the viewing of his plays.In More Things in Heaven and Earth, Fiddes argues that Hamlet's famous phrase not only underscores the blurred boundaries between the warring Protestantism and Catholicism of Shakespeare's time; it is also an appeal for basic spirituality, free from any particular doctrinal scheme. This spirituality is characterized by the belief in
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