Theatre and religion

Richard Dutton is Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State UniversityAlison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the University of LancasterRichard Wilson is Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London

• 1. Introduction: A torturing hour – Shakespeare and the martyrs, Richard Wilson 2. Bare ruined choirs – remembering Catholicism in Shakespeare's England, Eamonn Duffy 3. Shakespeare's Jesuit schoolmasters, Peter Milward S.J.4. Jesuit drama in early modern England, Robert Miola 5. Richard Verstegan and Catholic resistance: the encoding of antiquarianism and love, Donna Hamilton6. Catilines and Machiavels: reading Catholic resistance in 3 Henry VI, Randall Martin7. 'This Papist and his Poet': Shakespeare's Lancastrian kings and Robert Parson's Conference about the Next Succession, Jean-Christophe Mayer8. Catholic exiles in Flanders and As You Like It; or, what if you don't like it at all?, Carol Enos 9. Requiem for a prince: rites of memory in Hamlet, Gerard Kilroy 10. Richard Topcliffe: Elizabeth's enforcer and the representation of power in King Lear, Frank Brownlow 11. Learned pate and golden fool: a Jesuit source for Timon of Athens, Sonja Fielitz 12. Cymbeline and the sleep of faith, Margaret Jones-Davies 13. Shakespeare and Catholicism, Arthur Marotti 14. The cultural politics of Maybe, Gary TaylorIndex