Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.01.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objectives
  2. Strategies
  3. Activities
  4. Notes

Religious Elements in Shakespeare's Hamlet

Pamela Louise Ronson

Published September 2008

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Notes

1. Shakespeare, William, Mowat, Barbara, and Paul Werstine, Hamlet, (New York: Washington Square, 1992).

2. Oxford English Dictionary, Religion, http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50202036?query_type=word&queryword=religion&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=2

3. Roy Battenhouse, "Hamlet's Evasions and Inversions" in Shakespeare's Christian Dimension, ed. Roy Battenhouse (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1994), 404.

4. Ibid., 404.

5. Tom F. Driver, "Shakespeare's Sense of History" in Shakespeare's Christian Dimension, ed. Roy Battenhouse (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1994), 36.

6. Stephen Greenblatt, "Hamlet in Purgatory" in Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England, eds. Beauregard, David and Dennis Taylor (New York: Fordham University, 2003), 233.

7. Fr. John Gerard, S.J., "The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest" in Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England, eds. Beauregard, David and Dennis Taylor (New York: Fordham University, 2003), 222.

8. Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World (New York: Norton, 2004), 103.

9. John Freeman, "This Side of Purgatory: Ghostly Fathers and the Recusant Legacy in Hamlet" in Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England, eds. Beauregard, David and Dennis Taylor (New York: Fordham University, 2003), 223.

10. Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World (New York: Norton, 2004), 104.

11. Ibid., 105-106.

12. Ibid., 113.

13. Ibid., 113.

14. Roland Mushat Frye, Shakespeare and the Christian Doctrine (Princeton: Princeton University, 1963), 63.

15. Ibid., 63.

16. Ibid., 70.

17. Ibid., 72.

18. Ibid., 72.

19. Ibid., 73.

20. Greenblatt, Will in the World, 109.

21. Frye, Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine, 77.

22. Ibid., 99-100.

23. Maurice Hunt, Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness (Burlington: Ashgate, 2004), xii-xiii.

24. J.A. Bryant, Jr., "Typology in Shakespeare" in Shakespeare's Christian Dimension, ed. Roy Battenhouse (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1994), 23.

25. Frye, Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine, 117.

26. Steven Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible (New York: Oxford University, 2000), 9.

27. Ibid., 9.

28. J.A. Bryant, Jr., "Typology in Shakespeare", 23.

29. Ibid., 23.

30. Ibid., 24.

31. Matthew 27

32. Matthew 26.31-35; Matthew 26.69-75

33. U.S. Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church (New York: Bantam, 1994), 62.

34. New Advent, The Nicene Creed, July 8, 2008, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11049a.htm.

35. Matthew 26.17-30

36. Matthew 26.47-55

37. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 289, 375-381

38. 2 Peter 2.9

39. Exodus 20

40. Genesis 4.10-12

41. Catholic Online, The Nine Choirs of Angels, July 16, 2008, http://www.catholic.org/saints/anglchoi.php.

42. Genesis 3:19

43. Matthew 19.16-22

44. Judges 11.34-40

45. Matthew 6.9-13

46. Ezekiel 16:49

47. University of Notre Dame, "The Seven Capital Sins" in The Catholic Prayers and Teachings, July 14, 2008, http://www.nd.edu/ministry.

48. Oxford English Dictionary, "rood," July 20, 2008, http://www.oed.com/rood.

49. Oxford English Dictionary, "augury," July 25, 2008, http://www.oed.com/augury.

50. Oxford English Dictionary, "quintessence," July 20, 2008, http://www.oed.com/quintessence.

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