Jem Bloomfield is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham. A scholar of Renaissance literature, he studied at Oxford before earning his PhD from the University of Exeter. In his free time, he blogs about Shakespeare, Christianity, and feminism - and occasionally detective fiction - at quiteirregular.wordpress.com.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Text Itself (I): Questions about the Canon2. The Text Itself (II): The Words on the Page3. Ways of Reading4. Performing the Word5. People of the Books6. Calling on Their Name: Quotation and Appropriation(After)Words of PowerBibliography and Further ReadingIndex

This excellent study provides a fresh and intriguing approach to the cultural status of what Jem Bloomfield calls 'Shakespeare and the Bible'. Engagingly written and full of surprising insights, Words of Power argues for the overlap between how these texts are approached in both popular and scholarly culture. Bloomfield takes concepts from biblical scholarship and fruitfully explores how they can be used to challenge preconceptions about the way that both Shakespeare and the Bible should be read.

Jem Bloomfield is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham. A scholar of Renaissance literature, he studied at Oxford before earning his PhD from the University of Exeter. In his free time, he blogs about Shakespeare, Christianity, and feminism - and occasionally detective fiction - at quiteirregular.wordpress.com.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Text Itself (I): Questions about the Canon2. The Text Itself (II): The Words on the Page3. Ways of Reading4. Performing the Word5. People of the Books6. Calling on Their Name: Quotation and Appropriation(After)Words of PowerBibliography and Further ReadingIndex

This excellent study provides a fresh and intriguing approach to the cultural status of what Jem Bloomfield calls 'Shakespeare and the Bible'. Engagingly written and full of surprising insights, Words of Power argues for the overlap between how these texts are approached in both popular and scholarly culture. Bloomfield takes concepts from biblical scholarship and fruitfully explores how they can be used to challenge preconceptions about the way that both Shakespeare and the Bible should be read.

Jem Bloomfield is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham. A scholar of Renaissance literature, he studied at Oxford before earning his PhD from the University of Exeter. In his free time, he blogs about Shakespeare, Christianity, and feminism - and occasionally detective fiction - at quiteirregular.wordpress.com.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Text Itself (I): Questions about the Canon2. The Text Itself (II): The Words on the Page3. Ways of Reading4. Performing the Word5. People of the Books6. Calling on Their Name: Quotation and Appropriation(After)Words of PowerBibliography and Further ReadingIndex

This excellent study provides a fresh and intriguing approach to the cultural status of what Jem Bloomfield calls 'Shakespeare and the Bible'. Engagingly written and full of surprising insights, Words of Power argues for the overlap between how these texts are approached in both popular and scholarly culture. Bloomfield takes concepts from biblical scholarship and fruitfully explores how they can be used to challenge preconceptions about the way that both Shakespeare and the Bible should be read.