1st Edition

Shakespeare's God The Role of Religion in the Tragedies

By Ivor Morris Copyright 1972
    496 Pages
    by Routledge

    496 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1972.

    Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study places Christianity's commentary on the human condition side by side with what tragedy reveals about it. This pattern is identified using the writings of Christian thinkers from Augustine to the present day. The pattern in the chief phenomena of literary tragedy is also traced

    The Theological Interpretation of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Consideration of the Literary Problems; Chapter 1 THE ‘RELIGIOUS CONCEPT’ IN INTERPRETATION; Chapter 2 TRAGEDY'S SECULAR APPEAL; Chapter 3 THE ROLE OF THE EXPERIENCING MIND; Chapter 4 POETIC CREATION AND CONCEPTUAL THINKING; Chapter 5 THE SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND; II The Human Condition: Theology's Assessment of the Medium of Tragedy; Chapter 6 MAN AS A CREATURE; Chapter 7 THE CREATED UNIVERSE; Chapter 8 THE HUMAN WILL; Chapter 9 THE HUMAN INTELLECT; Chapter 10 THE GRACE OF GOD; Chapter 11 THE JUSTICE OF GOD; Chapter 12 THE TRAGEDY OF MAN; Chapter 13 THE USES OF ADVERSITY; III The Tragic Phenomenon: Literary Tragedy as the Secular Enactment of Theological Principle; Chapter 14 THE TRAGIC NECESSITY; Chapter 15 THE TRAGIC PARADOXES; Chapter 16 THE TRAGIC FLAW; Chapter 17 THE TRAGIC DREAD; Chapter 18 THE TRAGIC DESTINY; Chapter 19 THE TRAGIC CONSTRAINING; IV A Theological Interpretation of Shakespearian Tragedy: The Heroic Predicament as the Operation of the Apostate Will Beneath Providential Ordinance; Chapter 20 INTRODUCTORY; Chapter 21 MACBETH; Chapter 22 OTHELLO; Chapter 23 KING LEAR; Chapter 24 HAMLET Part 1; Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix A HISTORICAL PROCESS AND THEOLOGICAL CONSISTENCY; Appendix B THE INTERPRETATION OF TRAGEDY THROUGH CHARACTER; Appendix C THE INTERPRETATION OF TRAGEDY THROUGH POETIC IMAGERY LIST OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES USEDIndex;

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    Ivor Morris

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