Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology

Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology breaks new ground by revealing the playwright's dramatic reinvention of early modern Pauline texts and paratexts in a wide range of plays. Their common thread is Pauline-allusive characters who resist political, social, and/or physical subjection and aspire — with mixed degrees of failure and success — to emancipated lives of fulfilled being and belonging. Historically contextualized case-studies of Henry VI ...