Shakespeare Bibliographies

religion and the arts

Online Resources

General (Church Fathers, Reformation, etc.)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Hanover Historical Texts
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Shakespeare First Folio

Protestant
Anglican Sources
Book of Common Prayer
Calvin's Institutes
Elizabethan Homilies (Certaine Sermons)
Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
Geneva Bible
Thirty Nine Articles

Catholic
Council of Trent
Catechism of Council of Trent
Rheims New Testament (1582)
Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica


Selected Bibliography

The Case for Shakespeare's Catholicism (after 1940)

  • DeGroot, John Henry. The Shakespeares and "The Old Faith." 1946.
  • Mutschmann, H. & K. Wentersdorf. Shakespeare and Catholicism. NY: Sheed & Ward, 1952.
  • Milward, Peter. Shakespeare's Religious Background. Chicago: Loyola P, 1973.
  • Honigmann, E. Shakespeare: The "Lost Years." Manchester: 1985.
  • Taylor, Gary. "The Fortunes of Falstaff." Shakespeare Survey 38 (1985): 85-100.
  • Wilson, Ian. Shakespeare: the Evidence. NY: St. Martin's P, 1993.
  • Taylor, Gary. "Forms of Opposition: Shakespeare and Middleton." English Literary Renaissance 24 (1994): 283-314, esp. 289-314.
  • Duffy, Eamon. "Was Shakespeare a Catholic?" The Tablet (27 April
  • 1996): 536-38.
  • Wilson, Richard. "Shakespeare and the Jesuits: New Connections Supporting the Theory of the Lost Years in Lancashire." Times Literary Supplement (Dec. 19, 1997): 11-13.
  • Beauregard, David. "New Light on Shakespeare's Catholicism: Prospero's Epilogue in The Tempest." Renascence 49 (1997): 159-74.
  • Milward, Peter. The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays. Tokyo: Sophia U Renaissance Institute, 1997.

The Case for Shakespeare as Church of England

  • Hart, Alfred. Shakespeare and the Homilies. Melbourne, 1934.
  • Noble, Richmond. Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge and Use of the Book of Common Prayer. New York: Macmillan, 1935.
  • Milward, Peter. Shakespeare's Religious Background. Chicago: Loyola P, 1973. Chapters 5 & 6.
  • Schoenbaum, Samuel. William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary
  • Life. Revised edition. New York: Oxford, 1977, 1987. Pp. 55-62.
  • Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays. Newark: U Delaware P, 1999.

The Case for a "Secular" Shakespeare

  • Stevenson, R. Shakespeare's Religious Frontier. 1958.
  • Frye, Roland M. Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.

Particular Plays: Catholic Standpoint

  • All's Well That Ends Well
    • Beauregard, David. "'Inspirèd Merit': Shakespeare's Theology of Grace in All's Well That Ends Well." Renascence 51 (1999): 219-39.
  • Hamlet
    • Semper, I. M. Hamlet Without Tears. Dubuque: Loras College P, 1946.
    • Joseph, Sister Miriam. "Discerning the Ghost in Hamlet." PMLA 76 (1961): 493-502.
    • Joseph, Sister Miriam. "Hamlet, A Christian Tragedy." Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 119-40.
  • Macbeth
    • Hibbs, Thomas. "Macbeth and Natural Law." Religion and the Arts 30 (2000): Σ
  • Measure for Measure
    • Beauregard, David. "Shakespeare on Monastic Life: The Nuns and Friars in Measure for Measure." Religion and the Arts 30 (2000).
  • The Tempest
    • Beauregard, David. "New Light on Shakespeare's Catholicism:
    • Prospero's Epilogue in The Tempest." Renascence 49 (1997): 159-74.

Particular Plays: Protestant Standpoint

All's Well That Ends Well

  • Palmer, David. "Comedy and the Protestant Spirit in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 71 (1989): 95-107.
  • Lewis, Cynthia. "'Derived Honesty and Achieved Goodness': Doctrines of Grace in All's Well That Ends Well." Renaissance and Reformation 26 (1990): 147-70.
  • Sexton, Joyce. "'Rooted Love': Metaphors for Baptism in All's Well That Ends Well." Christianity and Literature 43 (1994): 261-87.

Hamlet

  • Frye, Roland M. "Prince Hamlet and the Protestant Confessional." Theology Today 39 (1982): 27-38. Reprinted in Frye's The Renaissance Hamlet.
  • Hassel, R. Chris. "Hamlet's 'Too' Too Solid Flesh." Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 609-22.

Macbeth

  • Stachniewski, John. "Calvinist Psychology in Macbeth." Shakespeare Studies 20 (1988): 169-89.

Measure for Measure

  • Gless, Daryl. Measure for Measure, the Law and the Convent. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979
  • Diehl, Huston. "'Infinite Space': Representation and Reformation in Measure for Measure." Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (1998): 393-410.

Othello

  • Watson, Robert N. "Othello as protestant propaganda" In Religion and Culture in Renaissance England. Ed. Claire McEachern and Debora Shuger. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. Pages 234-57.

Particular Plays: Secular Standpoint

  • Elton, William. King Lear and the Gods. San Marino, Ca.: 1966.
  • Watson, Robert. "False Immortality in Measure for Measure: Comic Means, Tragic Ends." Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (1990): 411-32.


Special Topics

John Shakespeare

  • Thomas, D. L. and N. E. Evans. "John Shakespeare in The Exchequer." Shakespeare Quarterly 35 (1984): 315-18.
  • Brownlow, Frank. "John Shakespeare's Recusancy: New Light on an Old Document." Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989): 186-91.

The Name "Shakeschafte"

  • Chambers, E. K. "William Shakeshafte" in Shakespearean Gleanings. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1944. Pp. 52-56.
  • Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1930. Vol. 2. Appendix E.
  • Honigmann, E. Shakespeare: The "Lost Years." Manchester: 1985.
  • Wilson, Richard. "Shakespeare and the Jesuits: New Connections Supporting the Theory of the Lost Years in Lancashire." Times Literary Supplement (Dec. 19, 1997): 11-13.

"Lost Years" in Lancashire

  • Honigmann, E. Shakespeare: The "Lost Years." Manchester: 1985.
  • Wilson, Richard. "Shakespeare and the Jesuits: New Connections Supporting the Theory of the Lost Years in Lancashire." Times Literary Supplement (Dec. 19, 1997): 11-13.

Richard Davies "He dyed a papist"

  • Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1930. Vol. 2. "The Shakespeare Mythos: Richard Davies," pp. 255-57.
  • Beauregard, David. "New Light on Shakespeare's Catholicism: Prospero's Epilogue in The Tempest." Renascence 49 (1997): 159-74.

Susanna Shakespeare suspected as being "popishly affected"

  • Brinkworth, E. R. C. Shakespeare and the Bawdy Court of Stratford. London: Phillimore, 1972. Pp. 44-49, 132.

John Ward (vicar of Stratford 1662-81) and Judith Shakespeare (d. 1662)

  • Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1930. Vol. 2. "The Shakespeare Mythos: John Ward (1661-3)," pp. 249-50.

Reformation Theology

  • Allison, C. F. The Rise of Moralism: The Proclamation of the Gospel from Hooker to Baxter. New York: Seabury Press, 1966.
  • Haugaard, William. Elizabeth and the English Reformation. Cambridge, 1968.
  • Wallace, Dewey D. Jr. Puritans and Predestination: Grace in English Protestant Theology, 1525-1695. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
  • Collinson, Patrick. "England and International Calvinism." In International Calvinism 1541-1715. Ed. Menna Prestwich. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1985.
  • Nichols, Aidan. The Panther and the Hind: A Theological History of Anglicanism. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993.
  • Hillerbrand, Hans (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 4 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

History of the English Reformation

  • Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation. 1964. 2nd ed. London, 1989.
  • Loomie, Albert J. Spain and the Jacobean Catholics. 2 vols. London: Catholic Record Society, 1973.
  • Haigh, Christopher. Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire. Cambridge, 1975.
  • Scarisbrick, Jack. The Reformation and the English People. Oxford, 1984.
  • Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580. New Haven: Yale UP, 1992.
  • Todd, Margo, ed. Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 1995.

Catholic Recusancy

  • Clancy, Thomas. Papist Pamphleteers: The Allen-Persons Party and the Political Thought of the Counter-Reformation in England, 1572-1615. Chicago: Loyola UP, 1964.
  • Holmes, Peter. Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of Elizabethan Catholics. Cambridge, 1982.
  • Walsham, Alexandra. Church Papists: Conformity and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England. 1993.

Religious History of Stratford

  • Collinson, Patrick. "The Church: Religion and Its Manifestations." Vol. 1 in William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence. Ed. John F. Andrews. 3 vols. New York: Scribners, 1985.

Anti-Catholicism in the Reformation

  • Pineas, Rainer. "The English Morality Play as a Weapon of Religious Controversy." Studies in English Literature 2 (1962): 157-80.
  • Weiner, Carol. "The Beleaguered Isle: A Study of Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Anti-Catholicism." Past and Present 51 (1971): 27-62.
  • Pineas, Rainer. Tudor and Early Stuart Anti-Catholic Drama. Nieuwkoop, 1972.
  • Lake, Peter. "Anti-popery: the Structure of a Prejudice." In Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642. Ed. Richard Crust and Ann Hughes. London: Longman, 1989. Pp.72-83.
  • Voss, Paul. "The Antifraternal Tradition in English Renaissance Drama." Cithara 33 (1993): 3-16.
  • Marotti, Arthur. "Southwell's Remains: Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern England." In Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England. Ed. Cedric C. Brown and Arthur Marotti. NY: St. Martin's, 1997. Pp. 37-65.
  • Shell, Alison. Anti-Catholicism in English Renaissance Literature.

Censorship

  • Clare, Janet. 'Art made tongue-tied by authority': Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990.
  • Dutton, Richard. Mastering the Revels: The Regulation and Censorship of English Renaissance Drama. Iowa City: U Iowa P, 1991.

Cultural Shift from Catholic to Protestant

  • Collinson, Patrick. "Protestant Culture and the Cultural Revolution." In Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England. Ed. Margo Todd. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 33-52.
  • Lewalski, Barbara. Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.

Richard Hooker

  • Hill, W. Speed, ed. Studies in Richard Hooker: Essays Preliminary to an Edition of His Works. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve UP, 1972.
  • Gibbs, Lee W. "Richard Hooker's Via Media Doctrine of Justification."
  • Harvard Theological Review 74 (1981): 211-20.
  • ___________. "Richard Hooker's Via Media Doctrine of Repentance."
  • Harvard Theological Review 84 (1991): 59-74.
  • Hooker, Richard. The Works of Richard Hooker. Gen. ed. W. Speed Hill. 5 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1981-90.
  • Westberg, Daniel. "Thomistic Law and the Moral Theory of Richard Hooker." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 68 (Annual Supplement, 1994): 203-14.
  • Kirby, W. J. Torrance. "Richard Hooker's Theory of Natural Law in the Context of Reformation Theology." Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999): 681-703.

Renaissance Ethics: Aristotelian-Thomistic, Stoic and Reformed

  • McAdoo, H. R. The Structure of Caroline Moral Theology. London: Methuen, 1949.
  • Monsarrat, Gilles. Light from the Porch: Stoicism and English Renaissance Literature. Paris: Didier, 1984.
  • Braden, Gordon. Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger's Privilege. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
  • Martindale, Charles and Michelle. Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity. London, 1990.
  • Miola, Robert. Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1992.
  • Sinnema, Donald. "The Discipline of Ethics in Early Reformed Orthodoxy." Calvin Theological Journal 28 (1993): 10-44.
  • Beauregard, David. Virtue's Own Feature: Shakespeare and the Virtue Ethics Tradition. Newark: U Delaware P, 1995.
  • Miles, Geoffrey. Shakespeare and the Constant Romans. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996.