Belated help for a friend: Pastor Ralph Smith of the Mitaka Evangelical Church in Tokyo has produced an course entitled “Shakespeare the Christian.” The lectures cover Shakespeare’s debts to Christianity and his use of the Bible, and then analyze 10 of the plays in detail. Ralph has done his homework, and his analyses are careful, creative, and very insightful. I highly recommend this series.

Smith’s course is available on his web site, www.berith.org.