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First published in 1972. The imagery of field sports - of hawking,
hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of
warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living
Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in
the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field
sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in
relation to the themes of the plays. The contemporary associations
of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness
from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and
courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed.
First published in 1972. The imagery of field sports - of hawking,
hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of
warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living
Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in
the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field
sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in
relation to the themes of the plays. The contemporary associations
of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness
from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and
courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed.
Tom Henn's classic work represents an important and illuminating
reading for the student of English literature and religion, the
general reader of the Bible and the Bible lover. Based on the King
James (Authorised) Version of the Bible, Dr Henn looks critically
at the epic, narrative, lyric and dramatic qualities of the sacred
texts. He examines the Bible's unique forge of style and the
imagery which so profoundly give the Bible its Biblical character.
The Bible's immense variety, its capacity to speak to the heart and
mind of the reader, its powerful readability and above all its
sense of the eternal, are all brought into Henn's masterly work. As
Henn says: 'The Bible has been burned deeply into the fabric of the
life and literature of the English-speaking peoples. Its proverbs
and its parables, its episodes sacred or profane, have been
expounded in drama and poetry from the earliest written English.'
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