Robert T. Morrison

A Tale Told Softly: Shakespeare's the Winter's Tale and Hidden Catholic England Robert T. Morrison

This book is about a way to read The Winter?s Tale that stops short of proving Shakespeare?s Catholicism, yet makes it clear that one of Shakespeare?s last public plays was remarkably Catholic, from first scene to last. By asking the almost childish question - ?why wasn?t Camillo named Pietro?? - and diligently seeking the answer, we open a hidden door. Looking in, we find so many connections between the play and the religious realities of Shakespeare?s day that we cannot easily see them as unintended. Over four hundred years after the play's first performance, this book considers whether the hidden tale within The Winter's Tale might be among the finest Shakespeare ever wrote.