Shakespeare and Religious Change

This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connections between Shakespeare's theatre and the religious past, the religious identities of the present and the deep cultural changes that would shape the future of religion in the modern world.

This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connections between Shakespeare's theatre and the religious past, the religious identities of the present and the deep cultural changes that would shape the future of religion in the modern world.

KENNETH J. E. GRAHAM is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has published The Performance of Conviction: Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance (1994), and is writing a book on the relationship between English poetry and the disciplinary culture of the English Reformation.

PHILIP D. COLLINGTON completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, Canada, and is Associate Professor of English at Niagara University in Lewiston, New York, USA. He has published articles on Shakespeare and his contemporaries in English Literary Renaissance, Comparative Drama, Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in Philology, Early Theatre and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, as well as in a number of book collections.