Three Faces of Saul

A fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul, the first king of Israel, as first narrated in biblical narrative and later reworked in Lamartine''s drama Saul: Tragédie and Thomas Hardy''s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each explored in detail in this study, and in each of the narrations the hero''s tragic fate emerges both as the result o...