Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary, trans. Boleslaw Taborski (New York: W.W. Norton, 1974), xix. 2. Julia Reinhard Lupton, Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2011), 18. 3. Clare Asquith, Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare (New York: Public Affairs, 2005), xiii. For a Catholic reading of the plays, see Joseph Pearce, Through Shakespeare’s Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010). For the question of secrecy in Shakespeare, see Richard Wilson, Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion and Resistance (Manchester University Press, 2004). 4. Park Honan, Shakespeare: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1999), 64. 5. For a useful and lucid discussion of these contested issues, see Arthur F. Marotti, “Shakespeare and Catholicism,” in Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare, ed. Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, and Richard Wilson (Manchester University Press, 2003), 218–41. 6. See Peter Milward, SJ, “Shakespeare’s Jesuit Schoolmasters,” in Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare, ed. Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, and Richard Wilson (Manchester University Press, 2003), 58–70. 7. Jack Lynch, Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife that Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard (New York: Walker, 2007). 8. See Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Painting Shakespeare Red: An East- European Appropriation, ed. Alexander Shurbanov and Boika Sokolova (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001); Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe, ed. A. Luis Pujante and Ton Hoenselaars (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003); Shifting the Scene: Shakespeare in European Culture, ed.
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