Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints

By John J. Norton

Book Overview

Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended to give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare's great tragedies and late plays:

* Hamlet

* The Tempest

* King Lear

* Henry VIII

* Othello

* The Winter's Tale

* Cymbeline

Diving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been Shakespeare's answer to a world fraught with political and religious controversy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194597849X
• ISBN13: 9781945978494
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: 1517 Publishing
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"