Armed with a fresh analysis of Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in four plays—Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello—the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive. From Skulsky's study, the four plays emerge as insidiously telling exercises in challenging our working faith in the objectivity of moral choice and the possibility of knowing other minds. In particular, Skulsky notes that Shakespeare takes calculated risks with our personal interest in his heroes by assigning them disturbing convictions as well as contemptible actions. In one of the plays, such convictions end by looking just as threatening as they do at the outset. In the others, Shakespeare offers a special kind of affirmation and compassion—an affirmation designed to stand against the worst of pessimism, and a compassion that makes room for the worst of the damned.

Analyzes the biblical references that Shakespeare makes in his plays, surveying the different English Bibles available to Shakespeare, and pointing out which of these he referred to most often (the King James version only appeared near the end of his career). Also examines biblical references found in literary source material used by Shakespeare to determine whether he used or adapted these or added others from his own memory; and what these allusions would have meant to audiences of the time.--From publisher description.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.

History of the Gifford Lectures The educator and historian Jacques Barzun described the Gifford Lectures as virtuoso performances and "the highest honor in a philosopher's career." For over a hundred years the Gifford Lecture series has been one of the foremost lecture series dealing with religion, science and philosophy. In his 1885 will the jurist Adam Lord Gifford, convinced that true, felt knowledge of God when acted upon generated human well-being and progress, bequeathed £80,000 to the four Scottish universities (Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St. Andrews) for the establishment of a series of lectures dealing with the topic of natural religion. In dealing with their particular area of interest and expertise, lecturers are to discuss natural theology as a science, that is, "without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation." The lectures began in 1888 and, with the exception of the years during World War II, 1942-1945, have been delivered continuously since that time. Presenters were to be appointed for a period of two years and could be reappointed for two additional periods of two years each, but for no more than six years in a given city. In this manner the subject was to be examined and promoted by different minds.

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister's virtue is held to ransom by the deputy rule of the city until justice is done, mercy shown, and order restored.This is among Shakespeare's most vivid dramatic projections of moral duplicity. The introduction discusses the origins of his treatment of the well-known story and examines his sources. The editor also sets the play in its historical context and offers the most comprehensive available account ofthe text's theatrical life from Restoration adaptations to present-day productions.

This one volume contains all 12 volumes (90) essays of the original work. There is a linked table of contents to each of them. The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth is a set of 90 essays published from 1910 to 1915 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The essays were designed to affirm, among other things, conservative Protestant beliefs, especially those of the Reformed tradition, and defend against ideas deemed inimical to them. They are widely considered to be the foundation of modern Christian fundamentalism. The essays set out what was believed to be the fundamentals of Christian faith.The volumes defended orthodox Protestant beliefs and attacked higher criticism, liberal theology, Catholicism socialism, Modernism,atheism, Christian Science, Mormonism, Millennial Dawn, Spiritualism, and evolutionism. Listed here is just some of the essay. The Virgin Birth of Christ - James Orr The Deity of Christ - Benjamin B. Warfield The Purposes of the Incarnation - G. Campbell Morgan The Personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit - R. A. Torrey The Proof of the Living God - Arthur T. Pierson History of the Higher Criticism - Dyson Hague A Personal Testimony - Howard A. Kelly The Testimony of the Monuments to the Truth of the Scriptures - George Frederick Wright The Recent Testimony of Archaeology to the Scriptures - M. G. Kyle Fallacies of the Higher Criticism - Franklin Johnson Christ and Criticism - Robert Anderson Modern Philosophy - Philip Mauro Justification by Faith - H. C. G. Moule Tributes to Christ and the Bible by Brainy Men not Known as Active Christians Inspiration of the Bible—Definition, Extent, and Proof - James M. Gray The Moral Glory of Jesus Christ a Proof of Inspiration - William G. Moorehead God in Christ the Only Revelation of the Fatherhood of God - Robert E. Speer The Testimony of Christian Experience - E. Y. Mullins Christianity No Fable - Thomas Whitelaw My Personal Experience with the Higher Criticism - J. J. Reeve The Personal Testimony of Charles T. Studd The Tabernacle in the Wilderness: Did it Exist? - David Heagle The Testimony of Christ to the Old Testament - William Caven The Bible and Modern Criticism - F. Bettex Science and Christian Faith - James Orr A Personal Testimony - Philip Mauro Life in the Word - Philip Mauro The Scriptures - A. C. Dixon The Certainty and Importance of the Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead - R. A. Torrey Observations of the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul - Lord Lyttleton A Personal Testimony - H. W. Webb-Peploe The Testimony of Foreign Missions to the Superintending Providence of God - Arthur T. Pierson. Is There a God? - Thomas Whitelaw Sin and Judgment to Come - Robert Anderson The Atonement - Franklin Johnson The God-Man - John Stock The Early Narratives of Genesis - James Orr The Person and Work of Jesus Christ - John L. Nuelsen The Hope of the Church - John McNicol The Passing of Evolution - George Frederick Wright Inspiration - L. W. Munhall The Testimony of the Scriptures to Themselves - George S. Bishop Testimony of the Organic Unity of the Bible to its Inspiration - Arthur T. Pierson One Isaiah - George L. Robinson The Book of Daniel - Joseph D. Wilson Three Peculiarities of the Pentateuch - Andrew Craig Robinson Millennial Dawn: A Counterfeit of Christianity - William G. Moorehead Old Testament Criticism and New Testament Christianity - W. H. Griffith Thomas Evolutionism in the Pulpit - Anonymous Decadence of Darwinism - Henry H. Beach Paul's Testimony to the Doctrine of Sin - Charles B. Williams The Science of Conversion - H. M. Sydenstricker The Doctrinal Value of the First Chapters of Genesis - Dyson Hague The Knowledge of God - James Burrell "Preach the Word" - Howard Crosby Mormonism: Its Origin, Characteristics, and Doctrines - R. G. McNiece The True Church - Bishop Ryle The Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch - George Frederick Wright The Wisdom of this World - A. W