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Article: Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet.(Book review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- March 22, 2008
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Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Edited by Beatrice Batson. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-932792-36-2. Pp. xvii + 178. $29.95 (paper).
As its editor says, this collection of essays "has not as its focus the question of whether Shakespeare's personal beliefs were either Catholic or Protestant but rather addresses the presence and function of Protestant and Catholic thinking in three of Shakespeare's tragedies" (xi): namely, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Such a focus contributes to a gathering interest among scholars in trying to describe, if not determine, the religious ...
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