Maurice Hunt is Research Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Shakespeare’s Romance of the Word (1990), Shakespeare’s Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (1995), Shakespeare’s Religious Allusiveness (2004), and Shakespeare’s Speculative Art (2011).

Maurice Hunt demonstrates that a great many diverse works of a religious and secular nature have represented face-to-face encounters between human beings and gods or between human beings and their fellow human beings in order to convey religious or ethical ideas. I came away from this book with a new recognition of an important motif in Western religious and cultural history. I also came away with a deeper understanding of the psychology of religious belief. It is an impressive achievement.

• Preface I. The Judeo-Christian HeritageChapter One: The Divine Face and the Face to Face in The Bible Inter-Chapter: St. Augustine’s Incarnate Face of Christ Chapter Two: Christ-Like and Compassionate Faces in Shakespeare’s Richard II, King Lear, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar Inter-Chapter: The Modern Face in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native Chapter Three: Christ’s Face and its Adversaries in Dostoyevsky’s The IdiotII. The Pagan HeritageChapter Four: Divine Faces and the Face to Face in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses: The Tale of Psyche and CupidChapter Five: Syncretic Faces in Hermann Hesse’s Demian Chapter Six: Pagan and Christian Faces in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have FacesCoda: Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethics of the Face Works Cited

Maurice Hunt is Research Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Shakespeare’s Romance of the Word (1990), Shakespeare’s Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (1995), Shakespeare’s Religious Allusiveness (2004), and Shakespeare’s Speculative Art (2011).

Maurice Hunt demonstrates that a great many diverse works of a religious and secular nature have represented face-to-face encounters between human beings and gods or between human beings and their fellow human beings in order to convey religious or ethical ideas. I came away from this book with a new recognition of an important motif in Western religious and cultural history. I also came away with a deeper understanding of the psychology of religious belief. It is an impressive achievement.

• Preface I. The Judeo-Christian HeritageChapter One: The Divine Face and the Face to Face in The Bible Inter-Chapter: St. Augustine’s Incarnate Face of Christ Chapter Two: Christ-Like and Compassionate Faces in Shakespeare’s Richard II, King Lear, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar Inter-Chapter: The Modern Face in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native Chapter Three: Christ’s Face and its Adversaries in Dostoyevsky’s The IdiotII. The Pagan HeritageChapter Four: Divine Faces and the Face to Face in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses: The Tale of Psyche and CupidChapter Five: Syncretic Faces in Hermann Hesse’s Demian Chapter Six: Pagan and Christian Faces in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have FacesCoda: Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethics of the Face Works Cited

Maurice Hunt is Research Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Shakespeare’s Romance of the Word (1990), Shakespeare’s Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (1995), Shakespeare’s Religious Allusiveness (2004), and Shakespeare’s Speculative Art (2011).

Maurice Hunt demonstrates that a great many diverse works of a religious and secular nature have represented face-to-face encounters between human beings and gods or between human beings and their fellow human beings in order to convey religious or ethical ideas. I came away from this book with a new recognition of an important motif in Western religious and cultural history. I also came away with a deeper understanding of the psychology of religious belief. It is an impressive achievement.

• Preface I. The Judeo-Christian HeritageChapter One: The Divine Face and the Face to Face in The Bible Inter-Chapter: St. Augustine’s Incarnate Face of Christ Chapter Two: Christ-Like and Compassionate Faces in Shakespeare’s Richard II, King Lear, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar Inter-Chapter: The Modern Face in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native Chapter Three: Christ’s Face and its Adversaries in Dostoyevsky’s The IdiotII. The Pagan HeritageChapter Four: Divine Faces and the Face to Face in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses: The Tale of Psyche and CupidChapter Five: Syncretic Faces in Hermann Hesse’s Demian Chapter Six: Pagan and Christian Faces in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have FacesCoda: Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethics of the Face Works Cited