Shakespeare the Catholic: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome

By Joseph Pearce

Product Code: STCTBOA24

CAD $12.95

This item will earn 12 loyalty reward points. Learn about loyalty points >

10-19	CAD $11.91 (8% off)
20-39	CAD $11.40 (12% off)
40-99	CAD $10.88 (16% off)
100+	CAD $10.36 (20% off)

Description
Reviews (0)

Product Description

•••••

Mass Market Version

Best-selling literary writer Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the world’s most revered playwright and poet. Unabashedly provocative and sure to be controversial, this work strives to separate historical fact from fiction about the beloved Bard, arguing the case with scholarship, insight, and keen observation. Famous, yet almost unknown, Shakespeare is not only one of the greatest figures in human history, he is also one of the most elusive. Who was he? What were his beliefs? Can we really understand his plays if we don’t know the man who wrote them? These are some of the questions that are asked and answered in this gripping and engaging study. Shakespeare the Catholic claims that books about the Bard have got him totally wrong. They misread the man and misread his work. The true Shakespeare has eluded the grasp of the critics. Dealing with the facts of Shakespeare’s life and times, Pearce’s quest leads to the inescapable conclusion that Shakespeare was a believing Catholic living in very anti-Catholic times.