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Article: Beatrice Groves. Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604.(Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet)(Book review)
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- Comparative Drama
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- September 22, 2007
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Beatrice Groves. Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 231. $95.00.
Beatrice Batson, ed. Shakespeare's Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii + 178. $29.95.
There is an oddity in Beatrice Grove's title, the impersonal and abstract Texts and Traditions that contrasts with the more pointed and topical "recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism" which the book flap cites as the book's context. But the title accurately reflects the task of the book, which is modest and scholarly, ...