An Unexpected Journal: Shakespeare & Cultural Apologetics

Reading Shakespeare through a Christian Lens

Not only huge English literature fans or apologetics aficionados will be delighted by this special Advent issue of An Unexpected Journal. The aim is to interest the scholar, yes, but also the general reader who has no special knowledge of English literature, Shakespeare, or apologetics.

The defense of the Christian faith believes that no domain of human experience. All areas, including the history of ideas political, philosophical, scientific, and social, are fair game for apologetic research and discussion.

All that we express in literature (especially the dramatic arts) deals with our experience, and experience is tied to the One who Makes, Redeems, and Sanctifies experience.

With features from guest editors:

Joe Ricke: "A Guide to Reading this Volume," "Introduction," "Against Pessimism: As You Like It (or Not)"

Sarah R.A. Waters: "Lewis, Lear, and The Four Loves"

As well as contributions from Shakespearean Scholars:

Jem Bloomfield: "Disclosures of Form"

John D. Cox: "Paradoxia Shakespeareana"

Jack Heller: "Dogberry's Inscrutable Grace in Much Ado about Nothing"

Laura Higgins: "Shakespeare's Hidden Ghosts"

Crystal Hurd: "Ophelia"

Corey Latta: "Hamlet's Father" and "Othello"

Tony Lawton and Editors: "Shakespeare and Cultural Apologetics"

Tracy Manning and Editors: "An Interview with Tracy Manning"

Louis Markos: "Letters From Shakespeare: Love" and "Letters From Shakespeare: Fools"

D.S. Martin: "A Poem Emerging From An Epigraph Concerning Hamlet's Indirection"

G. Connor Salter: "Adaptation and Cultural Apologetics"

John Stanifer: "Authorship: A Poetic Meditation"

Jennifer Woodruff Tait: "Scripture" and "Jaques Tells His Story"

Grace Tiffany: "Who is't can read a woman?"

Gary L. Tandy: "O, I have ta'en too little care of this"

Including excerpts from the works of William Shakespeare:

"Sonnet 55"

"Cordelia To Lear"

"Isabella's Speech (On Mercy)"

"Bottom's Dream + Biblical Source"

"On Mercy and Prejudice"

"Sonnet 116"    

And commentary from classic authors:

"On Shakespeare" by George MacDonald

"On MacBeth" by G.K. Chesterton

Erasmus    On Fools

"On Shakespeare" by John Milton    

250 pages
Volume 5, Issue 4 (Advent 2022)