Category: Shakespeare and Cultural Apologetics
Against Pessimism
As You Like It (or Not) This is a sermon on pessimism. There will be no footnotes, but you can...
Authorship: A Poetic Meditation
I thought it might be interesting to take on the endless arguments about who wrote the plays of...
Lewis, Lear, and The Four Loves
“William Shakespeare is not generally thought of as a religious apologist,” so began the call for...
Disclosures of Form: Theological Poetics and Shakespearean Analogies in Wright and Guite
Shakespearean references are a familiar sight in English-speaking Christian writing and preaching....
Shakespeare’s Hidden Ghosts: Spectral Presences and Spaces of Grace in Michael Boyd’s Richard II
Chukwudi Iwuji as Gloucester and Jonathan Slinger as King Richard in Richard II, dir. Michael...
An Interview with Tracy Manning: A Director and Theater Professor Reflects on the Theme
Oberon, King of Fairies from Taylor University Theatre’s Production of William Shakespeare’s A...
Shakespeare and Cultural Apologetics: An Actor’s Perspective
Anthony, may we call you Tony? Thanks. It’s a joy to talk to you for this special issue on...
A Poem Emerging From An Epigraph Concerning Hamlet’s Indirection
Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn’t mean anything at all....
Othello
Of all the impassioned speeches by tortured characters in Shakespeare, Othello’s last might be my...
Hamlet’s Father
Jung said that the greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parent. That’s...
Dogberry’s Inscrutable Grace in Much Ado about Nothing
In 1586, the Temple Church in London became the site of a public, momentous theological debate. In...
Bibliographies
Gary Tandy • What Lear Learns in the Storm Bartlett, John. The Complete Concordance to...
A Guide to Reading This Volume
Dear Reader: Thanks for joining us on this adventure. There have been many books on Shakespeare;...
Jaques Tells His Story
Jaques from As You Like It is one of the exiled Duke Senior’s courtiers, but plays no role in the...
