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 plot. Instead, he spends the entire play providing ironic, outwardly […]

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Paradoxia Shakespeareana

My title is a tribute to Rosalie Colie’s Paradoxia Epidemica, a title she in turn derived from Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646).[1] My aim in this essay is not […]

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An Interview with Tracy Manning: A Director and Theater Professor Reflects on the Theme

How did you, as a young Christian, get into theater? Into Shakespeare? I went to public school and when I was in the eighth grade I went with my older […]

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Letters from Shakespeare: Love

Though I am a playwright at heart, there is another kind of poetry that I lavished much time and effort and passion upon: my sonnets. Sonnets only contain fourteen lines, […]

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Letters from Shakespeare: Fools

If you would find wisdom, seek out a wise man. Well, not always. Sometimes the deepest and most profound wisdom lies hidden with the weak and the foolish. Such wisdom […]

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On Shakespeare

Original Publication (1864) Unknown. Republished in Orts (1882) and A Dish of Orts (1893). Edited with notes by Joe Ricke. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION George MacDonald, better known for his novels, fairy […]

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Lewis, Lear, and The Four Loves

“William Shakespeare is not generally thought of as a religious apologist,” so began the call for papers for this special issue, to which we might reply, C.S. Lewis is not […]

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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. His works supply apt tags, dramatic ethical situations, familiar characters and ringing language. This ubiquity of Shakespeare is […]

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