Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance

Illustrations
Preface
Introduction

Part I The Christian Vision and Living in Shakespeare's World
1 Medieval Christendom
Seven Sacraments
The Romance Tradition
2 Reformation Changes and Lingering Images
Restoration and Reform under Queen Mary Tudor
Elizabeth and Enforced Protestantism
Puritans
Mysteries' End
The Romance Tradition
3 The Shakespeares of Stratford

Part 2 The Tradition of Romance
4 The Romance Mode: Medieval Origins and Some Reworkings
The Comedy of Errors (c. 1589-94)
Two Gentlemen in Verona (c. 1590-94)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595)
The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596-97)
5 Understanding the Romance Mode
As You Like It (1598-1600)
Twelfth Night (1600-1602)
Anti-Romance: Chaucer Revisited
6 Lost Men and Women: Suffering and Transcendence
All's Well that Ends Well (c. 1601-5)
Pericles (1606-8)
Cymbeline (c. 1608-10)
The Tempest (c. 1611)
7 The Romance Mode Attained: Accused Wives and Queens
Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598-99)
Desdemona in Othello (1604-5)
Hermione in The Winter's Tale (c. 1609-11)
Katherine in Henry VIII (1613)

Conclusion
Notes
A Bibliographical Note
Index

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