Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance

by Richard Wilson and Richard Wilson

Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719070252
• ISBN13: 9780719070259
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"