William Shakespeare adapts a hanging
By: by Thomas Whitfield Baldwin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Hartley, William, d. 1588.; Executions and executioners -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Catholics -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Executions and executioners in literature.; Christian martyrs -- England.; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
Notes: "Bibliographical information"; p. 187-192.
A treatment of the religious executions of 1588, particularly that of William Hartley, and their influence on Shakespeare's Comedy of errors; with reprints of contemporaneous documents in the appendix.