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Willy-Nilly
Contested Will:Who Wrote Shakespeare?by james shapirosimon & schuster, 339 pages, $26 The subtitle of James Shapiro’s lively new study is a real question that has long engaged serious artists and...
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy Yale, 280 pages, $28.50 n Before the flames consumed him in 1555, Bishop Latimer is said to have...
Searching for the Soul of Shakespeare
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Sisters & Daughters
It started back in May 2001, at a graduation party in my daughter’s tiny New York apartment, just off Broadway, five flights up. Christine has won prizes in classics...
In Response to Joseph Pearce
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Thy Canonized Bones
The Quest For Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome by Joseph Pearce Ignatius, 216 pages, $19.95 In The Quest for Shakespeare , Joseph Pearce claims...
Shakespeare’s Religion
In 1613, at the end of his career, Shakespeare joined John Fletcher to dramatize the reign of Henry VIII—the king who broke with Rome and started the Protestant revolution...
