Print version: Wilson, Richard Worldly Shakespeare Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2016 ISBN 9781474411325
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts -- Introduction: No Offence in the World -- 1 A Globe of Sinful Continents: Shakespeare Thinks the World -- 2 Too Long for a Play: Shakespeare and the Wars of Religion -- 3 Shakespeare in Hate: Performing the Virgin Queen -- 4 No Enemy But Winter: Shakespeare’s Rogue State -- 5 Fools of Time: Shakespeare and the Martyrs -- 6 Veiling an Indian Beauty: Shakespeare and the Hijab -- 7 When Golden Time Convents: Shakespeare and the Shah -- 8 Like an Olympian Wrestling: Shakespeare’s Olympic Game -- 9 As Mice by Lions: Political Theology and Measure for Measure -- 10 Incensing Relics: All’s Well That Ends Well in Shakespeare’s Spain -- Epilogue: Flower Power in Bohemia -- Index.
A comprehensive rereading of Shakespeare’s plays in light of current debates about free speech and toleration..