Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian ShakespeareRichard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Richard Wilson This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic.In the Introduction, Richard Wilson reviews the history of the debate over Shakespeare's religion, while Arthur Marotti and Peter Milward offer current perspectives on the subject. Eamon Duffy offers a historian's view of the nature of Elizabethan Catholicism, complemented by Frank Brownlow's study of Elizabeth's most brutal enforcer of religious policy, Richard Topcliffe. Two key Catholic controversialists are addressed by Donna Hamilton (Richard Vestegan) and Jean-Christophe Mayer (Robert Parsons). Robert Miola opens up the neglected field of Jesuit drama in the period, whilst Sonia Fielitz specifically proposes a new, Jesuit source-text for Timon of Athens. Carol Enos (As You Like It), Margaret Jones-Davies (Cymbeline), Gerard Kilroy (Hamlet) and Randall Martin (Henry VI 3) read individual plays in the light of these questions, while Gary Taylor's essay fittingly investigates the possible influence of religious conflicts on the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio. Theatre and religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare as a whole represents a major intervention in this fiercely contested current debate. |
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... Elizabeth , Richard Topcliffe was a wealthy Lincolnshire gentleman whose sixteen heraldic quarterings so impressed ... Elizabeth's reign , as he told Robert Cecil in one of his later letters , Topcliffe entered the Queen's service ...
... Elizabeth , Richard Topcliffe was a wealthy Lincolnshire gentleman whose sixteen heraldic quarterings so impressed ... Elizabeth's reign , as he told Robert Cecil in one of his later letters , Topcliffe entered the Queen's service ...
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... Elizabeth and her government on preserving the unity of England through very dangerous times ; but in fact Elizabeth's England was a pro- foundly divided country in which , from the outset of the reign , to be Catholic , that is to say ...
... Elizabeth and her government on preserving the unity of England through very dangerous times ; but in fact Elizabeth's England was a pro- foundly divided country in which , from the outset of the reign , to be Catholic , that is to say ...
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... Elizabeth's Court by support for the King's mother , Mary , Queen of Scots ( R. C. Bald , John Donne : A Life ( New York and Oxford , 1970 ) , p . 163 . 27 ' Reading the tombs of Elizabeth I ' , English Literary Renaissance , 26 : 3 ...
... Elizabeth's Court by support for the King's mother , Mary , Queen of Scots ( R. C. Bald , John Donne : A Life ( New York and Oxford , 1970 ) , p . 163 . 27 ' Reading the tombs of Elizabeth I ' , English Literary Renaissance , 26 : 3 ...
Contents
a torturing hour Shakespeare and | 1 |
remembering Catholicism | 40 |
Shakespeares Jesuit schoolmasters Peter Milward S J | 58 |
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