Shakespeare: all the worlds a stage... for what?

Question

Funny thing is, works of Shakespeare and Holy Bible (seventh bible) were spawned about the same time. Both have been studied and debated extensively for 400 yrs.

No doubt Shakespeare was contemporary with King James; And had the same royal favor as Translators of the Bible appointed to make the seventh bible, as one better from six good; in the same fashion God saw good x6, but very good seventh time in Genesis 1.

Shakespeare was a master of allegory. Paul The Apostle, writer of more NT than all six other NT writers combined, says it's all "allegory" in both "covenants": Galatians 4.

Shakespeare said "all the worlds a stage"; Perhaps for the biblical shew, a God shew: comparative teaching, in the form of allegoric mystery to solve in time, by seek and find allegory clues to solve the mysteries of God; Paul being a faithful "steward" of said "mysteries of God".

Shakespeare also said: every man plays a part in the shew, one man playing seven parts in his time. Which one?

Good answers so far. Good to see ppl thinking, beyond churchy constraints, of literalism and legalism, perhaps hind-ers rather than helps, y(our) thinking. At throne of grace only help is available, and notably in time, not when too late.

Good answers so far. Good to see ppl thinking, beyond churchy constraints, of literalism and legalism, perhaps hind-er rather than help, y(our) thinking. At throne of grace only help is available, and notably in time, not when too late.

Answer 1

Shakespeare knew the Bible or he could not have written Macbeth as he did. I can see the Bible throughout his writings, but Shakespeare does not come close to the Bible.
The Bible is by far the greatest book ever written.

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says: Shakespeare was also a Catholic during Elizabethan times wow what danger as were the first Christians wow what danger again with all the martrydom. The first fifty popes were all martyrd for Christ at the hands of the Roman authority.

Find the book Shadowplay, the hidden beliefs and coded politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith

SONNET 23
As an unperfect actor on the stage
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart.
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharged with burden of mine own love's might.
O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love and look for recompense
More than that tongue that [M]ore hath more express'd.
O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

Who is more I mean More? Saint Thomas More yet another martyr for the faith

addendum: interesting I receive a thumbs down wonder who can't stomach the reality of Shakespeare being Catholic hmmmm

as we are on the topic of Jame I and Macbeth read chapter 12, pg202 The Powder Keg ;)

addendum: It's true that all the world's a stage - but the play is badly cast. -Oscar Wilde

yet another playwright who became Catholic interesting.

Answer 3

Your argument might come to a bit of halt as ''life is but a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing''.

If you have read Sir Thomas More's History of King Richard III you would find he made extensive use of the stage metaphor and Shakespeare's seven stages of man draws more heavily upon Sophocles, Aristophanes and Plautus than it does upon the bible.

Answer 4

It's true that all the world's a stage - but the play is badly cast.
-Oscar Wilde

To know all is not to forgive all. To know all is to despise everyone.
-Quentin Crisp

And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd ends stolen forth of Holy Writ
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
-Shakespeare, Richard III

Answer 5

No, Shakespeare said man plays his part, with his acts being seven ages, which is more like Sophocles than the Bible, sorry.

Answer 6

King Henry the 7th

Answer 7

in my opinion... I the super Director is so surprised and puzzled by the path the play has been taken by the gamers, that He merely watches it unfold out of sheer morbid interest!! that's, inspite of each and every thing, in many circumstances extemporaneous and the Actors have each and every their very very own script!!

Answer 8

Life.

Answer 9

Shakespeare didn't say, "All the world's a stage." Shakespeare had a character, Jacques, say it in "As You Like It."

Answer 10

Shakesphere is for learning without him all u would now how 2 do is mumble and groumble JUST KIDDING ido not now anything bout Shaksphare cuse i dont pay atenchen in my classes.