Series: Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought

History:

10 - 15th Centuries CE 

Nach:

Shmuel 

Collections: Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

Description

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 episode, Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the YU’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, examines the legitimacy, majesty, and humility of monarchy (or lack thereof) in Shakespeare’s Richard II and Macbeth.