365 Devotions pairing Scripture from the King James Bible and lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.Includes little known history, curiosities, and facts about words introduced or used in new ways by Shakespeare.
The Bards of the Bible
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Then to have us delve deeply into the meanings of not only Shakespeare, or the bible, but our own lives. For mired in these tales of intrigue and human desire is our own story, and how we chose to live out our own lives while on this Earth.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Summaries of 30 plays and 10 sonnets lead into devotionals, followed by a scripture reading and prayer.
The copy was sold by the College to the Folger Library in May of 1928 for £1000, a private sale handled by Maggs Brothers. The significance of the volume was first brought to general notice by Roland Mushat Frye, in his Shakespeare and ...
This book also discloses ways in which Shakespeare's plays offer both pious and irreverent interpretations of the Scriptures comparable to those presented by his contemporary writers, artists, philosophers and politicians.