Word and rite : the Bible and ceremony in selected Shakespearen works / edited by Beatrice Batson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Shakespeare and the Bible / Leland Ryken -- Being English through speaking English: Shakespeare and early modern anti-gallicism / Grace Tiffany -- Abbreviated rites and incomplete ceremonies: dramatic necessity, official prohibition, or cultural inspiration? / David George -- "Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?": The ritual of comedy and the rite of marriage in Measure for Measure / Keith Jones -- "Your statue spouting blood": Julius Caesar, the sacraments, and the fountain of life / Jack Heller -- The authorship of confession in Shakespeare's sonnets / Jeffrey Knapp -- 'Each letter in the letter': Textural testimonies in Shakespeare / Brett Foster -- Prospero's apocalypse / Christopher Hodgkins.

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This book is an attempt to show something of the ways in which the Bible and the Christian tradition intersect the language of Shakespeare. Word and Rite also focuses on the manner in which rites are efforts to illuminate mysteries: the mystery of marriage, the mystery of baptism, the mystery of confession, the mystery of the Eucharist, the mystery of funerals, and even the mystery of words, in their relation to the Word. Holy objects such as the Fountain of blood may also be considered. Maim ...

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