Secret Shakespeare : studies in theatre, religion and resistance

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Title:

Secret Shakespeare : studies in theatre, religion and resistance

Author:

Wilson, Richard, 1950-

Personal Author:

Wilson, Richard, 1950-

Publication Information:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, [2004]

Physical Description:

x, 326 pages ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Wrapped in a player's hide : Shakespeare's secret history -- Ghostly fathers : Shakeshafte and the Jesuits -- Secrets as a dumb man : two comedies of Italy and the genesis of secrecy -- No news but the old news : Shakespeare and the tragedy of Arden -- A bloody question : the politics of Venus and Adonis -- Love in idleness : the stripping of the altars in A midsummer night's dream -- Dyed in mummy : Othello and the mulberries -- The pilot's thumb : Macbeth and the martyrs -- Voyage to Tunis : new history and the old world of The tempest -- Unseasonable laughter : the context of Cardenio -- The statue of our queen : Shakespeare's open secret -- A winter's tale : King Lear in the Pennines.

Personal Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Religion.

Corporate Subject:

Catholic Church -- In literature.

Subject Term:

Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.

Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.

Catholics -- England -- Intellectual life.

Catholics in literature.

Secrecy in literature.

ISBN:

9780719070242