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About IgnatiusInsight.com
and the Insight Scoop web log
IgnatiusInsight.com and the Insight Scoop weblog are online resources
of Ignatius Press and are meant to assist readers who wish to learn more
about the Catholic Church and her teachings, beliefs, practices, and history.
Each week IgnatiusInsight.com features articles and essays by Ignatius
Press authors, as well as interviews with noted authors such as Fr. Benedict
Groeschel, Joseph Pearce, Peter Kreeft, Roy Schoeman, Glenn Olsen, Donald
De Marco, Benjamin Wiker, and others. Readers will also be able to read
excerpts from new and upcoming releases as well as from Ignatius Press
classics.
The Insight
Scoop web blog features daily commentary from Ignatius Press authors
and staff about theological issues, current events in the Catholic Church,
and a host of related topics.
 Carl
E. Olson is the web editor of IgnatiusInsight.com and the moderator
of the Insight Scoop weblog. Carl is the author of the best-selling Will
Catholics Be "Left Behind"? (2003), selected by the
Associated Press as one of the best religious titles of 2003. He is also
the co-author, with Sandra Miesel, of The
Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code, described
by Francis Cardinal George as "the definitive debunking" of
The Da Vinci Code. Carl is the former editor of Envoy magazine
and has written dozens of reviews and articles for periodicals including
Catholic Parent, Crisis, Envoy, First Things, National Catholic Register,
Our Sunday Visitor, Saint Austin Review, and The Catholic Answer.
You can send your questions and comments to Carl at carl@ignatius.com.
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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.
Continue reading....
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