This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II,

Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion an

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This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connecti