TOM BISHOP is Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of Auckland, New ZealandMARY A. BLACKSTONE is Professor in the Department of Theatre and Director of the Centre for the Study of Script Development at the University of Regina, CanadaGLENN CLARK is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Manitoba, CanadaANTHONY B. DAWSON is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, CanadaPHEBE JENSEN is Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, USAALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Toronto, Canada JEFFREY KNAPP is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, USAKAREN SAWYER MARSALEK is Associate Professor of English at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, USADEBORA SHUGER is Professor of English at UCLA, USARICHARD STRIER is Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the College at the University of Chicago, USAELIZABETH WILLIAMSON teaches English literature at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, USA

'The volume manages to encompass a surprising amount of diversity, extending its scope to consider the continuum of changes in religious and dramatic culture from the 1520s onwards... This book will interest not only Shakespeare students and scholars but also scholars of the Reformation and of theatre history.' Routledge ABES June 2011 "a highly recommended volume, one that gathers together the work of excellent scholars, offers an enjoyable reading experience, and presents a rich mine of gems to use in the classroom." - Shakespeare Studies

• Acknowledgments Note on Spelling Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction: K.J.E.Graham PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND SOCIAL HISTORY: RELIGION AND THE SECULAR Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy of Errors; R.Strier 'In a Christian Climate': Religion and Honor in Richard II; D.Shuger PART II: DRAMATIC CONTINUITIES AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE William Cecil and the Drama of Persuasion; A.F.Johnston The Queen's Men and the Performance of Allegiance, Conformity, and Difference in Elizabethan Norwich; M.A.Blackstone Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare's Plays; E.Williamson Staging Allegiance, Re-membering Trials: King Henry VIII and the Blackfriars Theater; K.Sawyer Marsalek PART III: RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES 'Mirth in Heaven': Religion and Festivity in As You Like It ; P.Jensen Speaking Daggers: Shakespeare's Troubled Ministers; G.Clark Othello in the Wilderness: How did Shakespeare Use his Bible?; T.Bishop PART IV: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CHANGING THEATRE: RELIGION OR THE SECULAR Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare's Histories; J.Knapp The Secular Theater; A.B.Dawson Index

TOM BISHOP is Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of Auckland, New ZealandMARY A. BLACKSTONE is Professor in the Department of Theatre and Director of the Centre for the Study of Script Development at the University of Regina, CanadaGLENN CLARK is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Manitoba, CanadaANTHONY B. DAWSON is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, CanadaPHEBE JENSEN is Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, USAALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Toronto, Canada JEFFREY KNAPP is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, USAKAREN SAWYER MARSALEK is Associate Professor of English at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, USADEBORA SHUGER is Professor of English at UCLA, USARICHARD STRIER is Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the College at the University of Chicago, USAELIZABETH WILLIAMSON teaches English literature at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, USA

'The volume manages to encompass a surprising amount of diversity, extending its scope to consider the continuum of changes in religious and dramatic culture from the 1520s onwards... This book will interest not only Shakespeare students and scholars but also scholars of the Reformation and of theatre history.' Routledge ABES June 2011 "a highly recommended volume, one that gathers together the work of excellent scholars, offers an enjoyable reading experience, and presents a rich mine of gems to use in the classroom." - Shakespeare Studies

• Acknowledgments Note on Spelling Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction: K.J.E.Graham PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND SOCIAL HISTORY: RELIGION AND THE SECULAR Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy of Errors; R.Strier 'In a Christian Climate': Religion and Honor in Richard II; D.Shuger PART II: DRAMATIC CONTINUITIES AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE William Cecil and the Drama of Persuasion; A.F.Johnston The Queen's Men and the Performance of Allegiance, Conformity, and Difference in Elizabethan Norwich; M.A.Blackstone Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare's Plays; E.Williamson Staging Allegiance, Re-membering Trials: King Henry VIII and the Blackfriars Theater; K.Sawyer Marsalek PART III: RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES 'Mirth in Heaven': Religion and Festivity in As You Like It ; P.Jensen Speaking Daggers: Shakespeare's Troubled Ministers; G.Clark Othello in the Wilderness: How did Shakespeare Use his Bible?; T.Bishop PART IV: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CHANGING THEATRE: RELIGION OR THE SECULAR Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare's Histories; J.Knapp The Secular Theater; A.B.Dawson Index