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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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In this book, John Cox exercises his broad learning and generous interpretive vision in order to deliver us a Shakespeare whose plays occupy a capacious middle ground between faith and skepticism, a territory measured by the divine comedy of the Christian story, yet kept flexible and responsive to other perspectives and possibilities by the morally and mentally quickening habits of suspicion. By providing thoughtful thematic readings of Shakespeare's major plays, this book will appeal not only to scholars interested in the religious and intellectual parameters of Shakespearean drama, but also to educated general readers in search of wisdom from as well as about Shakespeare. --Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California - Irvine

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John D Cox is the DuMez Professor of English at Hope College.

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