Killing Physicians

Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended to give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare's great tragedies and late plays:
* Hamlet
* The Tempest
* King Lear
* Henry VIII
* Othello
* The Winter's Tale
* Cymbeline
Diving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been Shakespeare's answer to a world fraught with political and religious controversy.