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Shakespeare's Christianity
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: E. Beatrice Batson
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Baylor University Press

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This volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in a trio of Shakespeare's tragedies: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Bypassing the dis
Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Dennis Taylor
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Studies in Religion and Litera

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The question of Shakespeare's Catholic contexts has occupied many scholars in recent years and this study brings together 16 original essays examining Shakespea
A Will to Believe
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: David Scott Kastan
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-16 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thi
Christian Humanism in Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Lee Oser
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-06 - Publisher: CUA Press

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Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespea
Religion Around Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Peter Iver Kaufman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-26 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-Catholic, a Puritan-baiter, a secularist, or a devotee of som