Title: Shakespeare's God :
Authors: Morris, Ivor.
Date: 1972
Publisher: Allen and Unwin,
Physical description: 496 pages, index ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Section I The Theological Interpretation of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Consideration of the Literary Problems. -- The 'religious concept' in interpretation -- Tragedy's secular appeal -- the role of the experiencing mind -- Poetic creation and conceptual thinking -- The search for common ground. Section II The Human Condition: Theology's Assessment of the Medium of Tragedy. -- Man as creature -- The created universe -- The human will -- The human intellect -- The grace of God -- The tragedy of man -- The uses of adversity. Section III The Tragic Phenomenon: Literary Tragedy as the Secular Enactment of Theological Principle. -- The tragic necessity -- The tragic paradoxes: (a) Truth from confusion (b) Joy in sorrow (c) Greatness in failure (d) Mighty opposites (e) Reality in transience -- The tragic flaw -- The tragic dread -- the Tragic destiny -- The tragic constraining. Section IV A Theological Interpretation of Shakespearian Tragedy: The Heroic Predicament as the Operation of the Apostate Will Beneath Providential Ordianance. -- Introductory -- Macbeth -- Othello -- King Lear -- Hamlet.
Subject headings (LCSH): Christian drama, English--History and criticism.; Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.; Religion in literature.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Religion.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragedies.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. Selections; Tragedy.