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Klause, John. Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit. Madison, Teaneck, and Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2008. Pp. 339. $72.50 cloth.

Klause, John. Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit. Madison, Teaneck, and Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh... Book Reviews / Religion and the Arts 14 (2010) 173–197 181 Klause, John. Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit . Madison, Teaneck, and Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated Uni- versity Presses, 2008. Pp. 339. $72.50 cloth. I sabella’s line in Measure for Measure , “[A]t war ’twixt will and will not,” quoted in John Klause’s insightful and arresting Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit , provides an apt summary of both authors’ work. According to Klause, Shakespeare is supposedly at war between the opposing forces of the Old Faith and the New (Catholicism and Anglicanism); while Klause, at times, seems equally at war with his subject matter, both in wrestling to organize the sheer volume of evidence, and between what he will and will not claim. As the fi rst major study of the suspected literary dependence of Shakespeare on Robert Southwell, Klause’s book proves an important con- tribution in the fi eld. As the title indicates, he accomplishes this end by exploring the connection among three men: Shakespeare; Henry Wriothes- ley, third earl of Southampton, often thought to be the young man of the sonnets and known to be Shakespeare’s patron; and Southwell, English- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

Klause, John. Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit. Madison, Teaneck, and Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2008. Pp. 339. $72.50 cloth.

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Religion and the Arts , Volume 14 (1-2): 181 – Jan 1, 2010
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© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews / Religion and the Arts 14 (2010) 173–197 181 Klause, John. Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit . Madison, Teaneck, and Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated Uni- versity Presses, 2008. Pp. 339. $72.50 cloth. I sabella’s line in Measure for Measure , “[A]t war ’twixt will and will not,” quoted in John Klause’s insightful and arresting Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit , provides an apt summary of both authors’ work. According to Klause, Shakespeare is supposedly at war between the opposing forces of the Old Faith and the New (Catholicism and Anglicanism); while Klause, at times, seems equally at war with his subject matter, both in wrestling to organize the sheer volume of evidence, and between what he will and will not claim. As the fi rst major study of the suspected literary dependence of Shakespeare on Robert Southwell, Klause’s book proves an important con- tribution in the fi eld. As the title indicates, he accomplishes this end by exploring the connection among three men: Shakespeare; Henry Wriothes- ley, third earl of Southampton, often thought to be the young man of the sonnets and known to be Shakespeare’s patron; and Southwell, English-

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