Last Writes

Outline, Resources, and News

Outline

a Life
INRI | Edict of Milan | Our Lady’s Dowry | Defenders of the Faith
| Light in the Darkness | Oath of Supremacy | Psycho Rex

the Plays
the Mission | the Mass | the Martyr

Hear Shakespeare
Genres | Staged | Published | Names | Storyteller

Themes in Shakespeare
Play within a Play | Slandered and Spotless
| Oaths and Love | Devils in Disguise | Banished Heroes

Resources

Bible and Catechism

Eamon Duffy

G.K. Chesterton

Saint Robert Southwell

Warren H. Carroll

William Cobbett

William Shakespeare

A Never Writer to an Ever Reader: News.

Eternal reader, you have here a new play…for it is a birth of your brain that never undertook anything comical vainly. And were but the vain names of comedies changed for the titles of commodities, or of plays for pleas, you should see all those grand censors, that now style them such vanities, flock to them for the main grace of their gravities, especially this author’s comedies, that are so framed to the life that they serve for the most common commentaries of all the actions of our lives, showing such a dexterity and power of wit that the most displeased with plays are pleased with his comedies…And believe this, that when he is gone and his comedies out of sale, you will scramble for them and set up a new English Inquisition.

William Shakespeare
Preface to A History of Troilus & Cressida