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Shell's picture of Shakespeare's religious contexts reminds us that there was a time when religion permeated almost every aspect of English life * Huntington Library Quarterly * One of the book's great virtues is its clarity ... Key scenes such as Hermione's revelation in The Winter's Tale and key plays such as King Lear and Measure for Measure come in for close, competent, citable attention. ... In its prioritisation of Shakespeare's devout religious context, in its careful and sympathetic discrimination between historical eras using both comparison and contrast, this book's greatest gifts to us are the structure, substance, and emotions of tragicomedy. * Literature & Theology *

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Alison Shell is Professor of English at University College London, UK.

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