Killing Physicians

Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended to give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare's great tragedies and late plays:* Hamlet* The Tempest* King Lear* Henry VIII* Othello* The Winter's Tale* CymbelineDiving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been Shakespeare's answer to a world fraught with political and religious controversy.