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 John
Herreid is a marketing consultant for Ignatius Press, having previously worked as a marketing
assistant for the publisher from 2000 - 2004.
He comes from a homeschooling family with eight children, of which he
is the second oldest. He has also worked as a cub scout wrangler at a summer camp, and
as a webmaster/typesetter/editorial assistant/telemarketer for Ignatius
Press' co-publisher, Bethlehem Books.
E-mail address: john@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.
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