In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops
his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on
Shakespeare's "rescripturing" of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively
urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and
an overall sense of affirmation and participation, and that many of
his plays constitute their own original testament, insofar as they
translate the good news into human terms. In Hamlet and King Lear,
he suggests, Shakespeare's "New Testament" is merely hinted at, and
faith, salvation, and peace are only glimpsed from far away. But in
Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, the themes
of compassion and forgiveness, transcendence, immanence, the role
of the deity, resurrection, and epiphany are openly, if often
obliquely, staged. The Christian Gospels and the Christian Bible
are the signposts of this itinerary. Originally published in 2009,
Boitani's Il Vangelo Secondo Shakespeare was awarded the 2010 De
Sanctis Prize, a prestigious Italian literary award. Now available
for the first time in an English translation, The Gospel according
to Shakespeare brings to a broad scholarly and nonscholarly
audience Boitani's insights into the current themes dominating the
study of Shakespeare's literary theology. It will be of special
interest to general readers interested in Shakespeare's originality
and religious perspective.
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