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Clare Asquith

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June 02, 1951

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Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (born 2 June 1951) is a scholar and the author of Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare, which posits that Shakespeare was a recusant Catholic whose works contain code which was used by the Catholic underground, particularly the Jesuits, in Reformation England, but also appealed to the monarchy in a plea for toleration. Asquith's book was the first to note the existence of the code as a subtext in Shakespeare. The work was hailed by many, including Catholic writer Piers Paul Read as "dramatic, important" and demonstrating "painstaking scholarship."

She has lectured on Shakespeare in both the UK and North America. Her ideas about sixteenth-century code were first ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 284 ratings · 60 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare 4.03 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny 4.11 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“During a sinister interchange between one of the little princes and his wicked uncle, Richard III, the prince wonders how truth is passed down the ages - whether through the written or the spoken word (3.1.75-83). The prince believes, he says innocently, that the history of the Tower of London - a choice of subject never far from the minds of English Catholics - would survive simply by word of mouth, even if it were never written down. The little prince has stepped into dangerous territory. He is not only defending the role of tradition against scripture - a central Catholic Reformation stance - but he also suggests that the grisly truth about England's persecutions will survive irrespective of what appears in history books.”
― Clare Asquith, Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare

tags: catholic, catholic-tradition, catholicism, protestant-reformation, protestantism

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“One of the revelations of the coded readings is that Shakespeare's 'bad' work always has a purpose, albeit a purpose that relates to a topical context we no longer recognize.”
― Clare Asquith, Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare

tags: punch-and-julie

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