December 14, 2022
“His Deputy Anointed in His Sight”: Kingship in Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible
How is monarchy in Judaism different from the works of Shakespeare, and what does this teach us about the Jewish tradition and the West?
How has the Hebrew Bible impacted the intellectual development of the West? How might a deeper understanding of Saul and David’s biblical narrative help us read Shakespeare’s meditations on the nature of kingship? In this podcast, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, examines the legitimacy, majesty, and humility of monarchy (or lack thereof) in Shakespeare’s Richard II and Macbeth.
This podcast is an episode of Twice Blest, a podcast by the Straus Center at Yeshiva University that explores the Hebrew Bible alongside the great works of the West.
