Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference argues, via the work of English playwright William Shakespeare, the importance of Catholicism as a necessary ...

In its pledge to ‘decolonize’ the Bard’s legacy, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has forsaken its historical mission in ...

Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays ... Although it wasn’t until after the Elizabethan era that England became one of the world’s biggest slave trading nations, Elizabeth I did profit from ...

Class participants will have an opportunity to read background materials on Elizabethan England and to make oral presentations on particular poets and poems. Some familiarity with Shakespeare’s ...

It explores Shakespeare's life in Elizabethan England, his upbringing in Stratford, and the historical context of his plays. The text emphasizes that Shakespeare's characters and themes resonate with ...

Even in Shakespeare’s day people were extremely superstitious. During the Elizabethan era people blamed unexplainable events such as the Bubonic Plague, unexplained deaths or unpleasant ...