Part I. First explorations in history and comedy: Henry VI to Love's Labour Lost: The chronicle plays: an overview ; The first tetralogy ; Shakespeare's early comedies ; Shakespeare's narrative poems ; Interlude: Shakespeare and dialogue -- Part II. Mid-Elizabethan accomplishments: King John to Henry V: Shakespeare and the Mid-Elizabethan nineties ; The second tetralogy -- Part III. Climax of the Elizabethan decade: Much Ado About Nothing to Hamlet: The high comedies of the late 1590s ; Hamlet.
Summary:
"Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today's ecumenical dialogues"-- Provided by publisher.
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