Article: Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England. (book reviews)

Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England examines the political-legal-ecclesiastical skirmishes in England in the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decade of the seventeenth, and seeks to show how variously but completely these are reflected in six of Shakespeare's plays, three Elizabethan and three Jacobean. During the earlier part of this period, and for some twenty years before, the controversy between church and crown centered on the desire of many presbyterian reformers to banish "the hierarchical system that was understood to have bred the corrupting materialism of the papacy, and [replace] it with a system that encouraged a focus on a ...

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