Three Faces of Saul: An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy
A
fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul,
the first king of Israel, as first narrated in biblical narrative and
later reworked in Lamartine's drama Saul: Tragdie and Thomas Hardy's
novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each
explored in detail in this study, and in each of the narrations the
hero's tragic fate emerges both as the result of a character flaw and
also as a consequence of the ambivalent role of the deity, showing a
double theme underlying not only the biblical vision but also its two
very different retellings nearer to our own times.
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