Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake A Comparative Study

Name: Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake A Comparative Study
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ISBN: 9780198184898

ISBN-10: 0198184891

ISBN-13: 9780198184898

Edition: 1999

Authors: Harold Fisch

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In this penetrating study of the poetics of influence the indebtedness of Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake to a common source, namely the Bible, becomes a powerful tool for displaying three fundamentally different poetic options as well as three different ways of dealing with a conflict central to western culture. In fresh and original discussions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and King Lear, Fisch discerns what he terms the metagon: not the struggle between the characters on the stage but a struggle for the control of the play between biblical and non-biblical modes of imagining. Milton seems more single-minded in his reliance on biblical sources, yet from his analysis of…

Book details

List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/25/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 346
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of Figures



Shakespeare



Julius Caesar: Stones or Men?



Antony and Cleopatra: Soldering up the Rift



Hamlet: Thy Commandment All Alone



King Lear: Organized Incoherence



Milton



Samson and the Poetics of Covenant



Paradise Lost: Subtext and Supertext



Blake



Mock on Voltaire Rousseau



Cognition and Re-cognition



The Golden Sandal of Hermes



The Poetics of Incarnation


Index