Seeming Knowledge

Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith

Author: John D. Cox Series: Studies in Christianity and Literature

Revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the conjunction of faith and scepticism in his writing. The recognition of the history of faith and scepticism in the sixteenth century illuminates a tradition that Shakespeare inherited and represented more subtly and effectively than any other writer of his generation.

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Seeming Knowledge revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the conjunction of faith and skepticism in his writing. Cox argues that the relationship between faith and skepticism is not an invented conjunction. The recognition of the history of faith and skepticism in the sixteenth century illuminates a tradition that Shakespeare inherited and represented more subtly and effectively than any other writer of his generation.

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“"This volume is a startling review of Renaissance English literature in a patient uncovering of the deep relationship between literature and religion - of religion in literature, that resituates Shakespeare in the history of Christian consciousness through his profound comedic sense of language and dramatic narrative at the heart of which may reside the hiddenness of God. This work deserves to be deeply pondered not only by students of Shakespeare, but by theologians and historians of the history of European ideas." --David Jasper, Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow”

[T]his is a thoughtfully argued, clearly written, and deeply informed essay which will appeal not only to Shakespeareans but to anyone interested in the intersection of drama, religion, and philosophy in Tudor-Stuart England. -- Sixteenth Century Journal, XL/3