Sims — Some Biblical Light on Hamlet

Sims, James H. “Some Biblical Light on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” Costerus 6 (1972): 155–61.

Shaheen — Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Tragedies. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1987.

Colie — Some Facets of King Lear

Colie, Rosalie L., and F. T. Flahiff, eds. Some Facets of King Lear: Essays in Prismatic Criticism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.

Rosalie L. Colie, “The Energies of Endurance: Biblical Echo in King Lear,” pp. 117–44

Carter — Shakespeare and the Holy Bible

Carter, Thomas. Shakespeare and the Holy Bible. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1905.

Cosgrove — Biblical, Liturgical, and Classical Allusions

Cosgrove, Mark Francis. “Biblical, Liturgical, and Classical Allusions in The Merchant of Venice.” Ph.D. dissertation.

Dissertation Abstracts International 31 (1971): 3498A.

Bullock — Shakespeare’s Debt to the Bible

Bullock, Charles. Shakespeare’s Debt to the Bible. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Press, 1970.

Burnet — Shakespeare and . . . the Genevan Job

Burnet, R. A. L. “Shakespeare and the First Seven Chapters of the Genevan Job.” Notes and Queries 29, no. 2 (1982): 127–28.

Burnet — Shakespeare and the Marginalia

Burnet, R. A. L. “Shakespeare and the Marginalia of the Geneva Bible.” Notes and Queries 26, no. 2 (1979): 113–14.

Burnet — Some Echoes of the Genevan Bible

Burnet, R. A. L. “Some Echoes of the Genevan Bible in Shakespeare and Milton.” Notes and Queries 27, no. 2 (1980): 179–81.

Burnet — Two Further Echoes

Burnet, R. A. L. “Two Further Echoes of the Genevan Margin in Shakespeare and Milton.” Notes and Queries n.s. 28, no. 2 (April 1981): 129.

Fisch — Biblical Presence

Fisch, Harold. The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake: A Comparative Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

Imfeld — Theology and Literature

Imfeld, Zoe Lehmann, Peter Hampton, and Alison Milbank, eds. Theology and Literature after Postmodernity. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.

Introduction: Hospitable conversations in theology and literature: re-opening a space to be human / The Editors. Part 1: Pedagogy. 1. Religion, History, and Faithful Reading / Susannah Brietz Monta; 2. Theology, Literature and Prayer: A Pedagogical Suggestion / Vittorio Montemaggi; 3. Bleak Liturgies: R. S. Thomas and “changes not to his liking” / Hester Jones — Part 2: Theological and Literary Reconstructions. 4. Belief and Imagination / Graham Ward; 5. Literary Apologetics beyond Postmodernism: Duality and Death in Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling / Alison Milbank; 6. Cusa: A Pre-modern Postmodern Reader of Shakespeare / Johannes Hoff and Peter Hampson; 7.’The One Life within Us and Abroad’: Pathetic Fallacy Reconsidered / Gavin Hopps; 8. Love Among the Ruins: Hermeneutics of Theology and Literature in the University after the 20th century / Jeffrey Keuss; 9. Thrashing between Exoneration and Excoriation: Creating Narratives in We Need to Talk about Kevin / Zoë Lehmann Imfeld; 10. The Shakespeare Music: Eliot and von Balthasar on Shakespeare’s “romances” and the “ultra-dramatic” / Aaron Riches; 11. Fictioning Things: Gift and Narrative / John Milbank; 12. Language, Reality and Desire in Augustine’s De Doctrina / Rowan Williams.

Noble — Shakespeare’s Biblical Knowledge

Noble, Richmond. Shakespeare’s Biblical Knowledge and Use of the Book of Common Prayer. London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1935.

Boose — Othello’s ‘Chrysolite’

Boose, Lynda E. “Othello’s ‘Chrysolite’ and the Song of Songs Tradition.” Philological Quarterly 60.4 (1981): 427–37.

Ackerman — Bible in Shakespeare

Ackerman, Carl. The Bible in Shakespeare. Folcroft: Folcroft Editions, 1971.

Hamlin — Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion

Hamlin, Hannibal, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“Nothing in Shakespeare’s England was as important as religion. Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to love and family, work and play, good and evil, suffering and sacrifice, and ultimately life and death. Every one of Shakespeare’s plays is rich in allusions to the Bible, church rites including baptism, communion, marriage, and burial, and a host of religious beliefs. This Companion provides an essential grounding in early modern religious history and culture and the ideas that Shakespeare returns to throughout his career. Chapters dedicated to close-readings of individual plays or groups of plays span both the complex and variegated Christian beliefs explored in Shakespeare’s work, as well as the treatment of Judaism, Islam and classical paganism. Authored by an international team of eminent scholars and featuring an Afterword by Rowan Williams, this Companion is the most comprehensive and incisive guide to the topic that students will find.”

Anderson — Old Testament Presence in The Merchant of Venice

Anderson, Douglas. “The Old Testament Presence in The Merchant of Venice.” English Literary History 52.1 (1985): 119–32.

Burgess — Bible in Shakespeare

Burgess, William. The Bible in Shakespeare: A Study of the Relation of the Works of William Shakespeare to the Bible, with Numerous Parallel Passages, Quotations, References, Phrases, and Allusions. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1903.

Reprinted: Haskell House, 1968.

Elyas — Two Ambitious Devils

Elyas, Adel Ata. “Two Ambitious Devils: Satan and Macbeth.” Journal of College of Arts (King Saud University) 11.1 (1984): 71–81.

Gorecki — Echo of Julius Caesar

Gorecki, John E. “An Echo of Julius Caesar in Paradise Lost.” Notes and Queries n.s. 33.1 (1986): 36.

Crannell — Bible in Shakespeare

Crannell, Philip W. “The Bible in Shakespeare.” Princeton Theological Review 19.2 (1921): 309–30.

Battenhouse — Shakespeare and the Bible

Battenhouse, Roy. “Shakespeare and the Bible.” Gordon Review 8 (1964): 18–24.

Milunas — Shakespeare and the Christian View of Man

Milunas, Joseph G., S.J. “Shakespeare and the Christian View of Man.” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University.

Abstract: Dissertation Abstracts 14 (1954): 526–27.

Miller — Double Hunt of Love

Miller, Robert P. “The Double Hunt of Love: A Study of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis as a Christian Mythological Narrative.” Ph.D. dissertation. Princeton University.

Abstract: Dissertation Abstracts 14 (1954): 2338

 

Lewalski — Biblical Allusion and Allegory in The Merchant of Venice

Lewalski, Barbara. “Biblical Allusion and Allegory in The Merchant of Venice.” Shakespeare Quarterly 13 (1962): 327–43.

Brown — Herbert’s ‘The Collar’ and Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV

Brown, William J. “Herbert’s ‘The Collar’ and Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV.” American Notes and Queries 6 (1967): 51–53.

Morison — Great Poets as Religious Teachers

Morison, John H. The Great Poets as Religious Teachers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886.

Goethe, Shakespeare, Dante.

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Countermine — Religious Belief of Shakespeare

Countermine, John D. The Religious Belief of Shakespeare. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1906.

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Santayana — Interpretations of Poetry and Religion

Santayana, George. Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900.

Chap. 6 is devoted to Shakespeare. Reprinted Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1969.

Digital version: HathiTrust [link]

Tucker — Shakespeare a Catholic?

Tucker, William J. “Shakespeare a Catholic?” Catholic World 176 (1952): 14–19.

Shell — Shakespeare and Religion

Shell, Alison. Shakespeare and Religion. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2015.

Shaheen — Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays

Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999.

Beauregard — Catholic Theology in Shakespeare’s Plays

Beauregard, David N. Catholic Theology in Shakespeare’s Plays. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.

Kastan — Will to Believe

Kastan, David S. A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Lemon — Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

Lemon, Rebecca. The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Chichester and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Contents: Part 1. — General introduction (by Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts). — The literature of the Bible (by Christopher Rowland). — Biblical hermeneutics and literary theory (by David Jasper). — Part 2: Medieval. — Introduction (by Daniel Anlezark) — Old English poetry (by Catherine A. M. Clarke). — The medieval religious lyric (Douglas Gray). — The Middle English mystics (by Annie Sutherland). — The Pearl-poet (by Helen Barr). — William Langland (by Mary Clemente Davlin). — Geoffrey Chaucer (by Christiania Whitehead). — Part 3: Early modern. — Introduction (Roger Pooley). — Early modern women (by Elizabeth Clarke). — Early modern religious prose (by Julie Maxwell). —Edmund Spenser (by Carol V. Kaske). — Mary Sidney (Rivkah Zim). — William Shakespeare (by Hannibal Hamlin). — John Donne (by Jeanne Shami). — George Herbert (by John Drury). — John Milton (by Michael Lieb). —John Bunyan (by Andrew Bradstock). — John Dryden (by Gerard Reedy). — Part 4: Eighteenth century and Romantic. — Introduction (by Stephen Prickett). — Eighteenth-century hymn writers (by J. R. Watson). — Daniel Defoe (by Valentine Cunningham). — Jonathan Swift (by Michael F. Suarez). — William Blake (by Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland). — Women Romantic poets (by Penny Bradshaw). — William Wordsworth (by Deeanne Westbrook). — S. T. Coleridge (by Graham Davidson). — Jane Austen (by Michael Giffin). — George Gordon Byron (by Wolf Z. Hirst). —P. B. Shelley (by Bernard Beatty). — Part 5: Victorian. — Introduction (by Elisabeth Jay). — The Brownings (by Kevin Mills). — Alfred Tennyson (by Kirstie Blair). — The Brontës (by Marianne Thormählen). — John Ruskin (by Dinah Birch). — George Eliot (by Charles LaPorte). — Christina Rossetti (by Elizabeth Ludlow). — G. M. Hopkins (by Paul S. Fiddes). — Sensation fiction (by Mark Knight). — Decadence (by Andrew Tate). — Part 6: Modernist. — Introduction (by Ward Blanton). —W. B. Yeats (by Edward Larrissy). — Virginia Woolf (by Douglas L. Howard). — James Joyce (by William Franke). — D. H. Lawrence (by T. R. Wright). — T. S. Eliot (by David Fuller). — The Great War poets (by Jane Potter).

DeCook — Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book

DeCook, Travis, and Alan Galey, eds. Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book: Contested Scriptures. London: Routledge, 2012.

Contents: Introduction: scriptural negotiations and textual afterlives (by Travis DeCook and Alan Galey). — Shakespeare reads the Geneva Bible (by Barbara A. Mowat). — Cain’s crime of secrecy and the unknowable book of life: the complexities of biblical referencing in Richard II (by Scott Schofield). — Paulina, Corinthian women, and the revisioning of Pauline and early modern patriarchal ideology in The Winter’s Tale (by Randall Martin). — The tablets of the law: reading Hamlet with scriptural technologies (by Alan Galey). — Shakespeare and the Bible: against textual materialism (by Edward Pechter). — Going professional: William Aldis Wright on Shakespeare and the English Bible (by Paul Werstine). — “Stick to Shakespeare and the Bible. They’re the roots of civilisation”: nineteenth-century readers in context (by Andrew Murphy). — The devotional texts of Victorian bardolatry (by Charles Laporte). — Apocalyptic archives: the Reformation Bible, secularity, and the text of Shakespearean scripture (Travis Decook). — Disintegrating the rock: Ian Paisley, British Shakespeare, and Ulster Protestantism (by David Coleman).

Hamilton — Shakespeare and Religion

Hamilton, Donna B. “Shakespeare and Religion.” Shakespeare International Yearbook 1 (1999): 187–202.

Booty — Elizabethan Religion

Booty, John E. “Elizabethan Religion: Disorder Ordered.” Anglican Theological Review 73, no. 2 (1991): 123–38.

Bishop — Shakespeare and Religion

Bishop, T. G. “Shakespeare and Religion.” Shakespeare International Yearbook 3 (2003): 11–13.

Milward — Religion in Arden

Milward, Peter. “Religion in Arden.” Shakespeare Survey 54 (2001): 115–21.

Martin — Religion of Shakespeare

Martin, John S. “The Religion of Shakespeare.” London Quarterly and Holborn Review, April 1964, pp. 139–43.

Eaton — Shakespeare and the Bible

Eaton, Thomas Roy. Shakespeare and the Bible: Showing How Much the Great Dramatist Was Indebted to Holy Writ for His Profound Knowledge of Human Nature. London: James Blackwood, 1858.