Secret Shakespeare
Subtitle: studies in theatre, religion and resistance
By: Richard Wilson.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Religion.; Catholic Church -- In literature.; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Catholics -- England -- Intellectual life.; Catholics in literature.; Secrecy in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wrapped in a player's hide : Shakespeare's secret history; title: Ghostly fathers : Shakeshafte and the Jesuits; title: Secrets as a dumb man : two comedies of Italy and the genesis of secrecy; title: No news but the old news : Shakespeare and the tragedy of Arden; title: A bloody question : the politics of Venus and Adonis; title: Love in idleness : the stripping of the altars in A midsummer night's dream; title: Dyed in mummy : Othello and the mulberries; title: The pilot's thumb : Macbeth and the martyrs; title: Voyage to Tunis : new history and the old world of The tempest; title: Unseasonable laughter : the context of Cardenio; title: The statue of our queen : Shakespeare's open secret; title: A winter's tale : King Lear in the Pennines.