Craig Pearce's TNT series Will (2017) incorporates many of the same historical facts used by biographers to argue that Shakespeare was a Catholic, but he employs them to criticize the excesses of fundamentalist religions, past and present. Pearce depicts the Jesuit priest Southwell as both an ardent defender of his faith and an ambitious zealot who is indifferent to the suffering of his supporters, who are tortured and executed as a result of their connection to him. Concurrently, Pearce portrays Richard Topcliffe, Queen Elizabeth's torturer, as a Puritan who enjoys sadistically tormenting recusant Catholics on behalf of England's Protestant government. Pearce links these characterizations to contemporary religious fundamentalists, specifically supporters of enhanced interrogations among the Religious Right and Muslim extremists who perform public executions. The religious partisanism that Pearce condemns in Will should also be avoided in biographical studies of Shakespeare.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2020
توصيف ظاهري
174-197
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
24/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
biography
اصطلاح موضوعی
Catholicism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Craig Pearce
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Shakespeare
اصطلاح موضوعی
Southwell
اصطلاح موضوعی
Topcliffe
اصطلاح موضوعی
Will
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