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 podcast, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, examines the legitimacy, majesty, and humility of monarchy (or lack thereof) in Shakespeare’s Richard II and Macbeth.
This podcast is an episode of Twice Blest, a podcast by the Straus Center at Yeshiva University that explores the Hebrew Bible alongside the great works of the West.
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