Shakespeare and Abraham /
"In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare's dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham's near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare's early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford's attack on young R...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2015] ©2015. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Abraham and the Shakespearean stage
- The Wakefield cycle play and the interpretive tradition
- Weak sovereignty and Genesis 22 in 3 Henry VI and King John
- Richard II: sovereign violence, and good old Abraham
- Titus Andronicus: why Aaron saves his son, and Titus does not
- The merchant of Venice: Shylock, the knight of fatih?
- Timon of Athens: one wish, and the possibliltiy of the impossible.