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| Scholarly Review |
 | Shakespeare, The Earl, and The Jesuit
ISBN# 9780838641378
Reviewed by: Christopher Baker, Armstrong University
Sixteenth Century Journal |
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In a series of articles over the past decade, John Klaus has argued that Robert Southwell, the Jesuit author and missionary to Elizabethan Catholics, was, as he says in the present study, "the Catholic voice to which Shakespeare seemed to pay the most serious and sustained attention" (20). By noting textual parallels between selected works by Shakespeare and Southwell, Klaus seeks to show that the dramatist relied upon the poet and martyr for a recurring Catholic subtext that would have appealed to the Catholic sympathies of Shakespeare's patron, Henry Wroithesley, third Earl of Southampton. The resulting study is well researched and closely argued; ... this is the most detailed monograph to date on Shakespeare's indebtedness to the Jesuit writer.
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