Ken Jackson

Broschiertes Buch

Shakespeare and Abraham

Beschreibung

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare's dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham's near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare's early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford's attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert's providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor's surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronicus, among others. However, the playwright's full engagement with the biblical narrative does not manifest itself exclusively in scenes involving the sacrifice of children or in verbal borrowings from the famously sparse story of Abraham. Jackson argues that the most important influence of Genesis 22 and its interpretive tradition is to be found in the conceptual framework that Shakespeare develops to explore relationships among ideas of religion, sovereignty, law, and justice. Jackson probes the Shakespearean texts from the vantage of modern theology and critical theory, while also orienting them toward the traditions concerning Abraham in Jewish, Pauline, patristic, medieval, and Reformation sources and early English drama. Consequently, the playwright's "Abrahamic explorations" become strikingly apparent in unexpected places such as the "trial" of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and the bifurcated structure of Timon of Athens. By situating Shakespeare in a complex genealogy that extends from ancient religion to postmodern philosophy, Jackson inserts Shakespeare into the larger contemporary conversation about religion in the modern world.

Autor

KEN JACKSON started off as a musician in high school, playing guitar and bass. He was still writing songs then. He took some college courses in jazz, piano, songwriting, and creative writing as well. Back in 1985, Ken Jackson recorded with a famous producer-Butch Vig, who produced Nevermind by Nirvana, a number-one album of the year in the early nineties. That's when Ken started writing poetry. He took a course in creative writing from UW-Extension. He wrote a few poems and people liked them, so he wrote more. There came a time when he used poetry as therapy where he would write two poems in every two weeks. And that beats the writer's block. A lot of that stuff is in Best of Ken Jackson. In 1999, Ken Jackson had put out a bunch of rock 'n roll albums. He was also participating in a monthly poetry group for a while. He wrote one section of this book using a variety of student researchers. He was also participating in a songwriter's guild.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780268032715
• ISBN-10: 0268032718
• Artikelnr.: 42023521