Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

Through Shakespeare's eyes, seeing the Catholic presence in the plays, Joseph Pearce

eng

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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non fiction

Through Shakespeare's eyes

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Joseph Pearce

seeing the Catholic presence in the plays

Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs

Prologue: through Shakespeare's eyes -- Of Jews and Jesuits -- Venetian blindness: critical mistakes and dramatic errors -- "I have much ado to know myself" -- Portia: gate of virtue -- Shylock the usurer -- The right to choose -- To choose the right -- Lead, kindly light -- The vice of vengeance -- The testing of Shylock -- The testing of Bassanio -- Light and lightheartedness -- To be or to seem to be: that is the question -- Hamlet and the ghost -- Ophelia -- Lies, spies, and fishmongers -- True mirrors and deceitful clouds -- Inversion and perversion -- A memento mori -- The triumph of sanity -- "And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest -- Love's silence -- The wisdom of fools and the sanity of madmen -- "When madmen lead the blind..." -- Reason in madness