Shakespeare's plays offer an acute insight into the politics and personalities of his era. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. ![]() In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God.
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