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...its focus the question of whether Shakespeare's personal beliefs were either Catholic or Protestant but rather addresses the presence and function of Protestant and Catholic thinking in three of Shakespeare's tragedies" (xi): namely, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Such focus contributes to a gathering interest among scholars in trying to describe, if not determine, the religious dimension of the Shakespeare canon. The title of a session at the 2007 annual convention of the Modern Language Association (organized by the Conference on Christianity and Literature) articulated the organizing question: "Shakespeare and Faith: Roman, English, or None?"

The contributors to Shakespeare's Christianity reflect the current range of opinion. Peter Milward, in "Meta-Drama in Hamlet and Macbeth," insists that Shakespeare held strong Catholic beliefs and sympathies; David Daniell, in "Explorers of the Revelation: Spenser and Shakespeare," argues that the religious foundation of Shakespeare's work is Protestant doctrine (a position shared by Grace Tiffany in her study of "Protestant Aural Theater");...

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