Download e-book for kindle: Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible by Jem Bloomfield

By Jem Bloomfield

ISBN-10: 0718894138

ISBN-13: 9780718894139

"Shakespeare and the Bible are of the icons of global tradition. they're interwoven into the language and customs of a lot of the English-speaking global, from turns of word which individuals instinctively borrow to precise their very own emotions, to the grand country events which bolster their very own authority. Their tales and characters are utilized by humans to promote cigars and crown monarchs, to begin wars and to convenience the grieving, to crack jokes and educate businesspeople. they're resources of large authority and, while, a part of daily life. many folks claim their trust in, or allegiance to, those books, and so forth recommend that in some way all wisdom is certain up inside of them. they're either “sacred texts” within the broadest feel, being handled in distinctively alternative ways from different books.

This quantity is an exploration of a few of the methods Shakespeare and the Bible are respected and understood in British and American tradition, drawing on educational scholarship and heritage to clarify the actual roles they play in our societies. The contrasts will be simply as illuminating because the comparisons. all through 'Words of strength' Jem Bloomfield focuses much less at the that means of the texts, however the methods these meanings are contested, reinterpreted and performed out within the world."

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