What
does
the
Bible
have
to
do
with
Shakespeare?







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Actually
quite
a
lot.
The
works
of
Shakespeare
contain
around
3,000
religious

references,
and
the
playwright
would
take
out
the
religious
references
in
any
source

material
and
add
in
a
completely
new
set.
Why
are
they
there
and
what
do
they

mean?



In
the
1930s
attempts
were
made
to
show
that
the
religious
references
were
being

used
to
create
Christological
allegories‐‐‐allegory
being
a
conventional
literary

technique
in
Elizabethan
literature.
But
these
attempts
failed
because
the
allegories

simply
did
not
fit
traditional
Christian
doctrine.



Now
a
new
solution
to
this
problem
is
being
proposed,
that
these
religious

references
indeed
are
a
religious
allegory,
but
an
anti‐Christian
and
a
Jewish

religious
allegory.
For
instance
Hamlet
appears
to
be
a
comic
religious
parody
of
the

Book
of
Revelation.

Like
Revelation
it
contains
seven
angels,
seven
trumpets
and

seven
letters.

Laertes
is
an
allegory
for
Christ,
Ophelia
for
the
Woman
Crowned

with
the
Sun/Virgin
Mary,

Polonius
for

God
the
Father.
Hamlet
is
the
Anti‐Christ.

Gertrude
is
the
Whore
of
Babylon
and
Claudius
the
Beast.
However
in
this
allegory


the
forces
of
good
are
defeated,
and
at
the
end
everyone
dies.
Instead
of
Jerusalem,
a

city
with
golden
walls
descending
from
heaven,
what
arrives
is

Fortinbrass,
a
pun

alluding
to
the
City
of
Brass
in
the
Arabian
Nights.



The
comic
allegory
is
easily
seen
in
the

character
of
Ophelia,
because
the
times

she
is
interrupted
by
Hamlet,
while

sewing
or
reading,
parody
the

Annunciation.
Hamlet’s
unrelenting

gaze
on
her
is
because
he
is

allegorically
Helios
(son
of
Hyperion)

and
his
gaze
parallels
the
depictions
of

the
Annunciation
in
Renaissance

painting.
However
all
does
not
end
well,

because
almost
all
her
herbs
cause

abortions
or
are
used

in
treatment
of

menstruation.
In
this
Annunciation
the

baby
is
aborted,
which
makes
sense
if

Hamlet
really
has
arrived
from
hell
and

is
the
Anti‐Christ.
This
new
approach
to

Shakespeare
is
being
used
by
the
Dark

Lady
Players
who
are
currently
working
on
a
production
of
Hamlet’s
Apocalypse

which
opens
in
New
York
City
in
November
2010.




The
question
remains
however,
how

Mr
Shakespeare
from
Stratford
could
have

written
such
black
anti‐Christian
parodies.
The
answer
is
maybe
he
did
not.
Maybe

instead
they
were
written
by
England’s
only
Jewish
poet‐‐Amelia
Bassano
Lanier,

who
is
one
of
the
latest
Authorship
candidates.
This
exciting
possibility
means
we

could

soon
begin
to
understand
a
whole
lot
more
about
how

Marrano
Jews
used

satire
to

covertly
resist

living
in

a
Christian
world
which
they
believed
to
be
utterly

false.







John
Hudson
is
Founder
of
the
Dark
Lady
Players,
a
New
York
theater
company
which

performs
the
allegories
in
the
Shakespearean
plays.


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Read
his
articles
at
www.darkladyplayers.com.

Watch
a

tv
news
article
from
the
Jewish
Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GXI5S85Jms
Watch
a
short
documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyn-3GNOd7w
Read
an
article
from
The
Oxfordian
about
this
new
Shakespeare
theory

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15488374/New-Shakespeare-Theory
Watch
a
tv
interview
on
Hamlet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEA_4V0mk_A