Holly Faith Nelson

Shakespeare on Salvation

Arts & Literature

“After the Reformation, competing theories on the ‘right road’ to eternal life stirred up heated debate among Shakespeare’s contemporaries. David Anonby’s penetrating and profound study of the treatment of salvation in Shakespearean drama reveals the Bard’s refusal to adopt a single doctrinal position. Anonby adeptly and convincingly argues that we should no longer seek a distinctly Catholic or Protestant Shakespeare, but rather observe the sophisticated ways in which his dramatic texts move between various confessional positions both within and across his oeuvre.”