Secret Shakespeare
Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance
Wilson, Richard
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BOOK SUMMARY
Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. In Secret Shakespeare, Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespear
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. In Secret Shakespeare, Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a "golden time" of future toleration, "What's to come" is always unsure. Whether or not "He died a papist," it is because we can never "pluck out the heart" of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist. This is essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.
AUTHOR BIO
Richard Wilson is Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English at the University of Lancaster.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0719070252
ISBN(13-digit): 9780719070259
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 822.3/3
Library of Congress: 2004303584
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 326
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