Note: It may help to use "Search Shakespeare," "The Bible Browser" and the OED to explore key words in these topics.

1. Narrative techniques in the encounter s of Henry and Dauphin and Moses and Pharaoh.

2. The resemblances between divine and human powers in the Bible and Shakespeare.

3. The theme of plunder, booty, spoils.

4. Priesthood and clergy--Bible and Shakespeare.

5. The use of the underdog/overdog opposition in Biblical and Shakespearean history [e.g. David vs. Goliath].

6. The image of the sea--and/or tempest and flood--in The Tempest and the Bible.

7. The idea of deliverance as narrative pattern and psychological or spiritual principle.

8. Ceres, cereals and grain--fertility and blessing in Tempest and Genesis.

9. Joseph and Prospero as magicians

10. Lost and found and structural principle and theology.

11. Tricks, trickery and tricksters

12. Origins and beginnings

13. Close analysis of specific analogies-similarities and differences: Rachel and Miranda, Moses and Ariel, the banquet scene in The Tempest and Joseph's testing of his brothers

14. Memory and forgetting

15. Juxtaposition and sequence: study several juxtapositions or sequences of discontinuous incidents to discover methods of creating meaning and unity by arrangement, in Shakespeare and the Bible.

16. Patterns of repetition and variation--e.g., Miriam's revolt and Korah's revolt/Antonio's revolt and Caliban's revolt

17. Rape/war/procreation--women as breeders in war and peace--with special reference to Henry's language in Act 5 and Judges 19-21.

18. Frustration and failure in princes and deities