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In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in <em>The Bible and Its Rewritings</em>, focusing on Shakespeare’s “rescripturing” of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and participation, and that many of his plays constitute their own original testament, insofar as they translate the good news into human terms. In <em>Hamlet</em> and <em>King Lear</em>, he suggests, Shakespeare’s “New Testament” is merely hinted at, and faith, salvation, and peace are only glimpsed from far away. But in <em>Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale,</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>, the themes of compassion and forgiveness, transcendence, immanence, the role of the deity, resurrection, and epiphany are openly, if often obliquely, staged. The Christian Gospels and the Christian Bible are the signposts of this itinerary.<br><br>Originally published in 2009, Boitani’s <em>Il Vangelo Secondo Shakespeare </em>was awarded the 2010 De Sanctis Prize, a prestigious Italian literary award. Now available for the first time in an English translation, <em>The Gospel according to Shakespeare</em> brings to a broad scholarly and nonscholarly audience Boitani’s insights into the current themes dominating the study of Shakespeare’s literary theology. It will be of special interest to general readers interested in Shakespeare’s originality and religious perspective.
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This is a passionate and insightful reading of Shakespeare's late plays, beginning with Hamlet and culminating with The Tempest, by one of Italy's leading literary scholars. Rather than engaging in extended critical debate with either prior theological visitors to Shakespeare or with the contemporary secular hegemony, Boitani embarks on a more personal and intimate reading of the plays that includes extensive retelling of their basic narratives with an eye to disclosing their gospel themes of love, hope, faith, charity, and rebirth. What makes the book distinctive is the voice of the author and the 'lectura' mode, which will garner a different, broader audience for this book than that achieved by scholars working similar terrain in a more academic mode.--Julia Lupton, author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life
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<strong>Piero Boitani</strong> is professor of comparative literature at the University of Rome “Sapienza.” He is the author of a number of books, including <em>The Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions</em> (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002).
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