Theatre and Religion Lancastrian Shakespeare

by Dutton, Richard; Findlay, Alison; Wilson, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780719063633
• ISBN10: 0719063639
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-09-30
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on the question of whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic. Among the many topics discussed are the nature of Elizabethan Catholicism, Jesuit drama in the period, individual plays in the light of these questions, and the possible influence of religious conflicts on the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio.

Author Biography

Richard Dutton is Professor of English Literature, Alison Gail Findlay is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, and Richard Wilson is Professor of Renaissance Literature, all in the Department of English at the University of Lancaster.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
1 Introduction: a torturing hour - Shakespeare and the martyrs
Richard Wilson	1	(39)
2 Bare ruined choirs: remembering Catholicism in Shakespeare's England
Eamon Duffy	40	(18)
3 Shakespeare's Jesuit schoolmasters
Peter Milward S.J.	58	(13)
4 Jesuit drama in early modern England
Robert S. Miola	71	(16)
5 Richard Verstegan and Catholic resistance: the encoding of antiquarianism and love
Donna B. Hamilton	87	(18)
6 Catilines and Machiavels: reading Catholic resistance in 3 Henry VI
Randall Martin	105	(11)
7 'This Papist and his Poet': Shakespeare's Lancastrian kings and Robert Parsons's Conference about the Next Succession
Jean-Christophe Mayer	116	(14)
8 Catholic exiles in Flanders and As You Like It; or, what if you don't like it at all?
Carol Enos	130	(13)
9 Requiem for a prince: rites of memory in Hamlet
Gerard Kilroy	143	(18)
10 Richard Topcliffe: Elizabeth's enforcer and the representation of power in King Lear
Frank Brownlow	161	(18)
11 Learned pate and golden fool: a Jesuit source for Timon of Athens
Sonja Fielitz	179	(18)
12 Cymbeline and the sleep of faith
Margaret Jones-Davies	197	(21)
13 Shakespeare and Catholicism
Arthur F. Marotti	218	(24)
14 The cultural politics of Maybe
Gary Taylor	242	(17)
Index	259