ABSTRACT
First published in 1972.
Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study places Christianity's commentary on the human condition side by side with what tragedy reveals about it. This pattern is identified using the writings of Christian thinkers from Augustine to the present day. The pattern in the chief phenomena of literary tragedy is also traced
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |67 pages
I The Theological Interpretation of Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Consideration of the Literary Problems
chapter |27 pages
Chapter 1 THE ‘RELIGIOUS CONCEPT' IN INTERPRETATION
chapter |9 pages
Chapter 2 TRAGEDY'S SECULAR APPEAL
chapter |12 pages
Chapter 3 THE ROLE OF THE EXPERIENCING MIND
chapter |14 pages
Chapter 4 POETIC CREATION AND CONCEPTUAL THINKING
chapter |3 pages
Chapter 5 THE SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND
section |81 pages
II The Human Condition: Theology's Assessment of the Medium of Tragedy
chapter |11 pages
Chapter 6 MAN AS A CREATURE
chapter |10 pages
Chapter 7 THE CREATED UNIVERSE
chapter |17 pages
Chapter 8 THE HUMAN WILL
chapter |6 pages
Chapter 9 THE HUMAN INTELLECT
chapter |12 pages
Chapter 10 THE GRACE OF GOD
chapter |6 pages
Chapter II THE JUSTICE OF GOD
chapter |12 pages
Chapter 12 THE TRAGEDY OF MAN
chapter |5 pages
Chapter 13 THE USES OF ADVERSITY
section |133 pages
III The Tragic Phenomenon: Literary Tragedy as the Secular Enactment of Theological Principle
chapter |17 pages
Chapter 14 THE TRAGIC NECESSITY
chapter |40 pages
Chapter 15 THE TRAGIC PARADOXES
chapter |27 pages
Chapter 16 THE TRAGIC FLAW
chapter |10 pages
Chapter 17 THE TRAGIC DREAD
chapter |12 pages
Chapter 18 THE TRAGIC DESTINY
chapter |25 pages
Chapter 19 THE TRAGIC CONSTRAINING
section |130 pages
IV A Theological Interpretation of Shakespearian Tragedy: The Heroic Predicament as the Operation of the Apostate Will Beneath Providential Ordinance
chapter |7 pages
Chapter 20 INTRODUCTORY
chapter |13 pages
Chapter 21 MACBETH
chapter |19 pages
Chapter 22 OTHELLO
chapter |27 pages
Chapter 23 KING LEAR
chapter |62 pages
Chapter 24 HAMLET
part |6 pages
Conclusion
section |4 pages
Conclusion
