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Ignatius Insight Podcast #1 | Carl E. Olson & Mark Brumley | April 16, 2008
The editor of Ignatius Insight and the president of Ignatius Press discuss the "Did Jesus
Really Rise From the Dead?" DVD, the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI, and the
Holy Father's visit to the United States. 25 minutes.
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Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays
by Joseph Pearce
Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare,
bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes in this volume three of Shakespeare's immortal
plays--The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and King Lear--in order to uncover the Bard's Catholic beliefs. In The Quest for Shakespeare, which has been made
into an EWTN television series, Pearce delved into the known biographical evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism. Here the popular and provocative author digs into
the plays, which were written and first performed during the English crown's persecution of Catholics. English history and literature were taught for generations through
the prism of English Protestantism. Of late both of these fields have been dominated in universities and academic presses by modern scholars with filters and
interpretations of their own. Though the evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism has been studied before now, thanks, in part, to the unique contribution of
Joseph Pearce, the Bard's genius is being analyzed in the open air of the public arena, the very place where Shakespeare intended his dramas to entertain and edify.
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