Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and ResistanceShakespeare'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. |
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This an intensely original book that seeks out a range of Catholic contexts and allusions for Shakespeare's plays. If the style of analysis is sometimes more cryptographic than hermeneutic, the readings are nonetheless always worthy of attention and repay revisiting.
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total, total shit.. at least the part about clapham and venus..
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Wrapped in a players hide Shakespeares secret history | 12 |
Ghostly fathers Shakeshafte and the Jesuits | 46 |
Secret as a dumb man Two comedies of Italy and the genesis of secrecy | 73 |
No news but the old news Shakespeare and the tragedy of Arden | 106 |
A bloody question The politics of Venus and Adonis | 128 |
Love in idleness The stripping of the altars in A Midsummer Nights Dream | 146 |
Dyed in mummy Othello and the mulberries | 157 |
Voyage to Tunis New history and the old world of The Tempest | 208 |
Unseasonable laughter The context of Cardenio | 232 |
The statue of our queen Shakespeares open secret | 248 |
A Winters tale King Lear in the Pennines | 273 |
Epilogue | 296 |
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The pilots thumb Macbeth and the martyrs | 188 |
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| Title | Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance |
| Authors | Mallilnckrodt Research Professor of Physics Richard Wilson, MD MS, Richard Wilson, Leslie Wilson, PhD |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0719070244, 9780719070242 |
| Length | 326 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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