Shakespeare and Abraham

In Shakespeare and Abraham , Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6 , Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John , and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronicus , among others. However, the pl