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Secret Shakespeare - Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance (Paperback)
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Secret Shakespeare - Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance (Paperback)
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Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary
discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now
complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which
he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether
to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance
was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage.
In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist
remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the
atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of
discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and
disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future
toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He
died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of
his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential
to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential
reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. --
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