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Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Contemporary Review, Jan, 2005
Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance. Maurice Hunt. Ashgate. [pounds sterling]40.00. xv + 148 pages. ISBN 0-7546-3954-1. The subject of Shake-speare's religion has become a popular academic subject in recent years. In this study, in which all five chapters have already appeared either as they are or in earlier versions, Prof.
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Hunt argues that it is wrong to see Shakespeare as either Protestant or Catholic. Rather, Shakespeare had a 'syncretistic method for incorporating Protestant and Catholic elements into his plays' that was unique. The five chapters examine the interplay between Catholic and Reformed believes, practices and assumptions in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (the presence of the syncretic approach), the three 'Henriad' plays (conflicting methods of reformation), All's Well That Ends Well (personal merit v divine grace), Twelfth Night (providence) and Othello (the role of predestination and the 'heresy of merit'). Whilst this study will not end the debate, it makes a valuable and worthwhile contribution to it and enlarges our understanding of Shakespeare's religious beliefs.
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