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Book SynopsisThis important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: A torturing hour – Shakespeare and the martyrs, Richard Wilson
2. Bare ruined choirs – remembering Catholicism in Shakespeare's England, Eamonn Duffy
3. Shakespeare's Jesuit schoolmasters, Peter Milward S.J.
4. Jesuit drama in early modern England, Robert Miola
5. Richard Verstegan and Catholic resistance: the encoding of antiquarianism and love, Donna Hamilton
6. Catilines and Machiavels: reading Catholic resistance in 3 Henry VI, Randall Martin
7. 'This Papist and his Poet': Shakespeare's Lancastrian kings and Robert Parson's Conference about the Next Succession, Jean-Christophe Mayer
8. Catholic exiles in Flanders and As You Like It; or, what if you don't like it at all?, Carol Enos
9. Requiem for a prince: rites of memory in Hamlet, Gerard Kilroy
10. Richard Topcliffe: Elizabeth's enforcer and the representation of power in King Lear, Frank Brownlow
11. Learned pate and golden fool: a Jesuit source for Timon of Athens, Sonja Fielitz
12. Cymbeline and the sleep of faith, Margaret Jones-Davies
13. Shakespeare and Catholicism, Arthur Marotti
14. The cultural politics of Maybe, Gary Taylor
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