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This essay explains how Shakespeare deploys St. Paul's figure of being clothed in Christ as a way of expressing intimacy with the young man of the sonnets. More precisely, it explains how Shakespeare exploits competing interpretations of Paul's figure for witty and even blasphemous ends.
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This page is a summary of: ‘Loves Best Habit’: Eros, Agape, and the Psychotheology of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/9780230299986_10.
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