Through Shakespeare's eyes: seeing the Catholic presence in the plays
Literature, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Religion, Christianity
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare, bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes Shakespeare's plays, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and King Lear, to uncover the Bard's Catholic beliefs. In The Quest for Shakespeare,… which has been made into an EWTN television series, Pearce delved into the known biographical evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism. Here author digs into the plays, which were written and first performed during the English crown's persecution of Catholics. English history and literature were taught for generations through the prism of English Protestantism. Of late both of these fields have been dominated in universities and academic presses by modern scholars with filters and interpretations of their own. Though the evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism has been studied before, the Bard's genius is being analyzed in the open air of the public arena, the very place where Shakespeare intended his dramas to entertain and edify. Bestseller