<span><span>These essays investigate the political, cultural, and religious mores of the time and how these societal factors may have pressured or influenced Shakespeare and his work. Hamlet speaks of "the very age and body of the time his form and...
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These essays investigate the political, cultural, and religious mores of the time and how these societal factors may have pressured or influenced Shakespeare and his work. Hamlet speaks of "the very age and body of the time his form and pressure," a discussion that challenges the reader to decipher the links between cultural history and their manifestations in various forms and how they give us glimpses of Shakespeare, the man behind his works.
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Shakespeare's Playwrights; Chapter Two: The History of the Shakespeares and the Shakespeares in the Histories; Chapter Three: 1592-1594; Chapter Four: Greene, Harvey, Nashe, and the "Making" of Falstaff; Chapter Five: "Look in the calendar"; Chapter Six: "But I have that within which passeth show"; Chapter Seven: "Those lips that love's own hand did make"; Chapter Eight: Shakespeare's Churches; Chapter Nine: Shakespeare and the Rhythms of Devotion; Chapter Ten: Outbraving Luther; Chapter Eleven: Shakespeare among the Jesuits
Chapter Twelve: Was Shakespeare a "Church Papist" or a Prayer Book Anglican?Index; About the Contributors
