TEXTS AND TRADITIONS. Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604.

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with just a touch of bumping to the extremities. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss or tears.

'[The book] explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of this time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, Groves eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways in which Shakespeare's borrowing from both the visual culture of Catholicism and the linguistic wealth of the Protestant English Bible enriched his drama' (publisher's blurb).