Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will

In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare’s playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if “All the world’s a stage’, then "all the men and women in it’ are "merely players’. This book is a comprehensive rereading of Shakespeare’s plays in light of current debates about free speech and toleration.