‘My Name Be Buried Where My Body Is’: The Influence of Ecclesiasticus 41 on Sonnets 71–74

The role played by the apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus in shaping Shakespeare's religious sensibilities has been carefully documented in a series of books and articles dating back to the opening decades of the twentieth century. Yet even today the task of disentangling the many rays of influe...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2015-12, Vol.62 (4), p.583-586
Main Author: Stritmatter, Roger
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bible
Dramatists
Religion
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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Summary:The role played by the apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus in shaping Shakespeare's religious sensibilities has been carefully documented in a series of books and articles dating back to the opening decades of the twentieth century. Yet even today the task of disentangling the many rays of influence connecting the language and ideas of Ecclesiasticus to the Shakespearean corpus remains incomplete. This note will examine the remarkable but previously undetected influence of a series of verses from Ecclesiasticus 41, primarily as manifest in the Sonnets.
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjv133