The Heart of His Mystery: Shakespeare and the Catholic Faith in England Under Elizabeth and James
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The Heart of His Mystery examines Shakespeare's life and work against this background. There is strong biographical evidence that he was himself a Catholic, and a detailed survey of his plays and poems shows that his imagination was intimately bound up with his religious faith. When we realise that his human compassion grew from his membership in a persecuted community, we can glimpse the mystery he has encrypted in his works and we come closer to understanding the hidden heart of Shakespeare the man.
John Waterfield
John Waterfield has a D.Phil. in English Literature from the University of Oxford. He has studied Shakespeare all his life. He has two nearly grown-up children, and lives in rural Herefordshire, on the border of Wales, with a cat. This is his third published book.
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