Description: Shakespeare and the Bible are titans of English-speaking culture: their images are endlessly cited and recycled, and their language permeates everything from our public ceremonies to our private jokes. In Words of Power, Jem Bloomfield explores the cultural reverberations of these two collections of books, and how each era finds new meanings as they encounter works such as Hamlet or the Gospel of Mark. Beginning with a shrewd examination of how we have codified and standardised their canons, deciding which books and which words are included in the official collections and which are excluded, Bloomfield charts the ways in which every generation grapples with these enigmatic and complex texts. He explores the way they are read and performed in public, the institutions that use their names to legitimise their own activities, and how the texts are quoted by politicians, lords and rappers. Words of Power throws modern ideas about Shakespeare and the Bible into sharp relief by contrasting them with those of our ancestors, showing how our engagements with these texts reveal as much about ourselves as their actual meanings.
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Subject Area: Literary Studies
ISBN-13: 9780718894139
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Literature
Book Title: Words of Power : Reading Shakespeare and the Bibles
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 9.2in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: Jem Bloomfield
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, Shakespeare, Biblical Studies / General
Publisher: Lutterworth Press, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism, Religion
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
