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Shakespeare’s Debt to the Bible London: Hand and Heart Publishing Offices, 1879. Burgess, William. The Bible in Shakespeare: A Study of the Relation of the Works of William Shakespeare to the Bible New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1903. Burnet, R. A. L.
Naseeb Azeez Shaheen ( June 21, 1931 - September 26, 2009) was an American scholar who specialized in Biblical allusions in the work of Shakespeare.. Born in Chicago, he graduated in 1962 from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon with a Bachelor of Arts.
In Shakespeare's play, Portia is a wealthy heiress in Belmont. She is bound by a lottery outlined in her father's will, which allows potential suitors to choose one of three caskets made of gold, silver, and lead, respectively. If they choose the correct casket containing Portia's portrait and a scroll, they win her hand in marriage.
The phenomenon became important in the Victorian era when many writers treated Shakespeare's works as a secular equivalent or replacement to the Bible. [9] "This King Shakespeare," the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, "does not he shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying signs ...
In 1559, five years before Shakespeare's birth, the Elizabethan Religious Settlement finally severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.In the ensuing years, extreme pressure was placed on England's Catholics to accept the practices of the Church of England, and recusancy laws made illegal any service not found in the Book of Common Prayer, including the Roman Catholic Mass. [5]
The use of the word quick in this context is an archaic one, specifically meaning living or alive; therefore, this idiom concerns 'the living and the dead'.The meaning of "quick" in this way is still retained in various common phrases, such as the "quick" of the fingernails, [6] and in the idiom quickening, as the moment in pregnancy when fetal movements are first felt. [7])
It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, [3] Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne and others. It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower ( Pilgrim Hall Museum has collected several Bibles of Mayflower passengers ), and its frontispiece inspired Benjamin Franklin 's ...
David John Daniell (17 February 1929 – 1 June 2016) was an English literary scholar who became Professor of English at University College London.He was founder of the Tyndale Society, a specialist in William Tyndale and his translations of the Bible, and author of a number of studies of the plays of Shakespeare.