The Hero and Transcendent Suffering

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Job

Commentary on the Book of Job by Ted Wade

Study Guide for the Book of Job from the Christian Library

Text of the Book of Job -- modern King James version

Text of the Book of Job: "literal translation"

King James translation of the Book of Job at Bartleby.com

Book of Job from the Literature Network

Geneva Study Bible's Commentary on Job

The Bible Gateway search here for multiple translations of the Book of Job

Ray Stedman's Commentary on the Book of Job

World Wide Study Bible's Commentary on the Book of Job

Text of Job in the New American Bible from the U.S. Conference of American Bishops

Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job

The William Blake Archive: Blake did a set of illuminations of the Book of Job. While these works are not located at this site yet, you may want to explore this marvelous site to learn more about William Blake.

The Blake Multimedia Project Downloadable hypertext version of the Book of Job

William Blake Online from the Tate Gallery

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex at Bartleby.com

Quotations from Sophocles at Bartleby.com

Sophocles's Oedipus Rex from the Yale New Haven Teacher's Institute

Sophocles: Concordance

The Internet Classics Archive: Texts of Sophocles and many other playwrights and ancient autors

Sophocles plays in Greek at Perseus

Perseus Main Page

The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama from the University of Oxford

Shakespeare

King Lear from the BBC. A must-visit site. Transcripts, audio files, and much more.

King Lear

King Lear Essays

Furness Shakespeare Library Flash application requires Flash 5.0 plug-in.

Web Resources for King Lear from Rutgers

King Lear in Art from Emory

Text of King Lear

Classic Notes on King Lear

King Lear at Internet Shakespeare Editions

Shakespeare Index from theatrehistory.com

Text of King Lear from Renascence Editions

Searchable edition of King Lear from The Literature Network

King Lear Study guide from Absolute Shakespeare

King Lear at Bartleby.com

King Lear on the Net

Performance of King Lear from the Actor's Theatre of Sonoma County.

Text of King Lear at Columbia

First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Works: King Lear

King Lear: Love, Tyranny and Madness

Akira Kurosawa Homepage Kurosawa directed several remakes of Shakespearean classics, including Ran (King Lear) and Throne of Blood. You can explore his career on this site.

The Kurosawa Database

Akira Kuroawa page from Foreignfilms.com

Japanese Cinema Studies: Ran

Ran page from Arts Central

Akira Kurosawa

For a discussion of Christ as suffering servant, see the Hero as Savior of the World page