Shakespeare, God, and Me

About the Book

This book is, in part, a record of a passion by one who is not a proper Shakespeare scholar. It contains some conventional literary criticism (some harsh words on Portia, and an analysis of the Credo in Verdi's Otello) and some more eccentric material: a love letter to Cordelia, a short story based roughly on Macbeth, and a long personal essay on King Lear. Probably not enough "God" for the pious.

About the Author

William Hamilton was born in Evanston Illinois, where Shakespeare too hold of him at a very early age. College at Oberlin, Navy (gunnery and communications), and graduate work at Princeton, Union Theological Seminary, and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he did not play gold. He taught in the fields of religion, literature, and intellectual history in New York, Florida, and Oregon. He lives in Portland, Oregon.