This balanced and innovative collection explores the relationship of Shakespeare's plays to the changing face of early modern religion, considering the connections between Shakespeare's theatre and the religious past, the religious identities of the present and the deep cultural changes that would shape the future of religion in the modern world.

TOM BISHOP is Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand MARY A. BLACKSTONE is Professor in the Department of Theatre and Director of the Centre for the Study of Script Development at the University of Regina, Canada GLENN CLARK is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Manitoba, Canada ANTHONY B. DAWSON is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Canada PHEBE JENSEN is Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, USA ALEXANDRA F. JOHNSTON is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Toronto, Canada JEFFREY KNAPP is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, USA KAREN SAWYER MARSALEK is Associate Professor of English at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA DEBORA SHUGER is Professor of English at UCLA, USA RICHARD STRIER is Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the College at the University of Chicago, USA ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON teaches English literature at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, USA