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Ryken on Shakespeare

// July 10th, 2009 // Doctrine

Shakespeare as a Christian Writer

Article by Leland Ryken June 2009 The myth of the secular Shakespeare continues to cast a long shadow over most people’s perception of Shakespeare’s plays.  Until I inherited the Shakespeare course in my department halfway through my career, I assumed that despite certain Christian patterns and… continue

Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible

Article by Leland Ryken July 2009 The story of Shakespeare and the Bible is partly the story of Protestant English Bible translation in the sixteenth century. Shakespeare was the beneficiary of a movement in which English Reformers poured their energies into translating the Bible. In fact, English Bible translation in the sixteenth century galvanized a society in a manner that invites comparison with the building of cathedrals in the Catholic Middle Ages. The Protestant Reformation also created an edifice–an edifice of the Word… continue