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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

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John D. Cox (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is the DuMez Professor of English at Hope College.

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