TEXTS AND TRADITIONS: RELIGION IN SHAKESPEARE, 1592-1604.
Series: OXFORD ENGLISH MONOGRAPHS
Publisher: CLARENDON/OXFORD; Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: Feb 03, 2007
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 244
Description: Explores Shakespeare's engagement with the religious culture of his time. Through readings of a number of plays - "Romeo and Juliet", "King John", "1 Henry IV", "Henry V", and "Measure for Measure", this work explains allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood.