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| Scholarly Review |
 | Shakespeare, The Earl, and The Jesuit
ISBN# 9780838641378
Reviewed by: Unknown
Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance -- Tome LXXII |
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In this argumentative book, John Klause (Hofstra) tries valiantly to associate Shakespeare, Henry Wroithesley, Earl of Southampton, and Robert Southwell, SJ with religious politics of their time. Speculation, and so far it amounts to not much more than speculation, remains rife about the extent, if any, to which Shakespeare clung to the Old Religion and dared to express dissenting ideas in his works, or have his characters do so because he as a dramatist really does not come on stage. Did he somehow get by all the censors and the majority of the public? We have had much guesswork about Shakespeare as a young man in Roman Catholic circles in Lancashire. This book concentrates on Shakespeare in London, whether confirmed in his faith as a Jesuit or supposedly insecure in it like the earl. Klause states that Southwell's work were available to Shakespeare in the Catholic underground. That seems credible. T
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