Exploring Catholic Faith in Shakespearean Drama

David Torevell is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, UK & Visiting Professor at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. Brandon Schneeberger is Assistant Professor of English at Montreat College in North Carolina, where he teaches a variety of literature and writing courses. Luke Taylor SJ has taught literature internationally, in both tertiary and secondary institutions. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (2013).

1. Introduction 2. Section One: Anthropology 3. Macbeth’s Body: An Anatomy of Evil 4. Education and the Body: Twelfth Night and the Incarnation 5. Who do Students think they are? Nothing(ness) and Identity in King Lear 6. Section Two: Ethics 7. The Passion which causes Evil: Examining Envy and its Siblings in Shakespeare’s Othello 8. How Studying King Richard III Might Assist Students in Recognising Deception in Themselves and Others 9. Section Three: Vocation 10. On St Swithin’s Day: Star-Crossed Lovers and Cosmic Mysteries in Romeo and Juliet and One Day 11. Yielding many Scholars: The Virtue of Virginity in Measure for Measure and Pericles 12. Sacrifice as a Means to Knowing: Marriage and Sacramental Grace in The Merchant of Venice and Cymbeline 13. Section Four: Pedagogy 14. Education and Conversion Towards the Good: A Benedictine Framework and Shakespearean Soliloquies 15. Ignatian Pedagogy and Recognition: from the Bible to Shakespeare 16. Conclusion