LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 15:11 November 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Allusions to the Passion of Christ in William Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet

Song Cho, M.A.

Keywords: Passion, Christ, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Biblical Allusions, Geneva Bible, Romeo and Juliet

Early in the play Benvolio says, “Put up your swords. You / know not what you do” (1.1.61-62). Naseeb Shaheen compares these lines with two biblical passages that recall the last days of Jesus: Matthew 26: 52 and Luke 23:34 (512). A closer scrutiny of the tragedy suggests that there are other biblical references to the Passion of Christ— particularly from the Gospel of Matthew— that may not have been previously pointed out. The purpose of this note, then, is to simply list a number of passages from the play that may have borrowed biblical language from the passion narrative. All scriptural verses are quoted from the 1599 Geneva Bible and every bolded emphasis is mine.

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Song Cho, M.A.
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Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee
OK 74804
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song.cho@okbu.edu
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