Catholic-Protestant Controversy and the Shakespearean Stage: The Play of Polemic

• Main Author: Cattell, Daniel Charles
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01.01.2012
• Subjects: 16th century; Bible; Biblical studies; Catholicism; Christianity; Core curriculum; Culture; Curriculum development; Divinity; European history; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Genre; History; Legislation; Libraries; Political science; Politics; Protestant Reformation; Readers; Reading; Religion; Religious conversion; Religious education; Religious history; Theology; Traditions; Writing

Shakespeare’s career in the theatre coincides with the ascendancy of Catholic-Protestant polemic, a body of writing that exerted a deep and pervasive influence on literate life in early modern England. Eroding a secularizing bias within the academy, the much heralded turn to religion in the discipli...