A revelatory new look at how Shakespeare secretly addressed
the most profound political issues of his day, and how his plays
embody a hidden history of England. In 16th-century England many
loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice:
to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of
unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a
police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home.
The age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius
the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could
such a remarkable man born into such violently volatile times
apparently make no comment about the state of England in his work?
He did. But it was hidden. Revealing Shakespeare''s sophisticated
version of a forgotten code developed by 16th-century dissidents.
Clare Asquith shows how he was both a genius for all time and
utterly a creature of his own era: a writer who was supported by
dissident Catholic aristocrats, who agonized about the fate of
England''s spiritual and political life and who used the stage to
attack and expose a regime which he believed had seized illegal
control of the country he loved. Shakespeare''s plays offer an acute
insight into the politics and personalities of his era. And Clare
Asquith''s decoding of them offers answers to several mysteries
surrounding Shakespeare''s own life, including most notably why he
stopped writing while still at the height of his powers. An utterly
compelling combination of literary detection and political
revelation, "Shadowplay" is the definitive expose of how
Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time,
and what he had to say about them.
關於作者：
Clare Asquith has lectured on Shakespeare in England and
Canada. An article on The Phoenix and the Turtle was published in
2001 by the TLS and an essay on Love''s Labour''s Lost appeared this
year in Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern
England. She lives in Somerset with her husband and five
children.
目錄：
Introduction
PART I. BACKGROUND: THE ENDING OF THE OLD ORDER
I The Silence of John Nobody
2 Secret Voices
3 The Protectors
PART II. PASSIVE RESISTANCE, I588--I594
4 Reconciliation, i588-i592
5 Persecution, i592-i594
6 Rage, 1594
PART III. THE ATTEMPTED COUP, 1595-16o2
7 Addressing the Queen, 1595-1599
8 The Catholic Resistance, 1599-16oo
9 Appeal to the Undecided, 16oo
IO Failure, 16oi-16o2
PART IV. THE PLEA TO KING JAMES, 1603--1608
11 The King''s Man, I6O3-16o4
12 The Powder Keg, 16o5-16o6
13 ThePost-Mortem, 16o6-16o8
PART V THE Loss OF PRINCE HENRY, 1608--I 616
14 The Second Hope, 16o8-1616
15 Silenced, 161o-1611
16 The Lost Man'', 1611and After
Appendix: Sonnet 152
Glossary: A Selection of Coded Terms
Reference List
Notes
Index
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