Shakespeare and the Inquisition

Cummings, Brian

doi:10.1017/sso9781139170000.023

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“…How did this copy of the Shakespearean corpus find its way into a Jesuit college in a town in the Spanish Netherlands, which in 1678 became part of the kingdom of France? Along with the copy of the Second Folio (printed in 1632) once conserved in the library of the Jesuit college and seminary at Valladolid before its transfer to the Folger Library in Washington, 1 the Saint-Omer Folio bears witness to readings, recitations and perhaps even performances of Shakespeare in Catholic circles, while also confirming in both cases that expurgation of the text was considered necessary, a process which was carried out more thoroughly and systematically in the case of Valladolid than of Saint-Omer. The two Jesuit Folios have led to a reformulation of another familiar question, that of Shakespeare's religious beliefs.…”

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This essay sets out to analyse the seven successive or contemporary forms in which Shakespeare’s poems and plays were published from the 1590s until the end of the eighteenth century. It highlights a dual tendency: On the one hand, Shakespeare’s texts were bound together with those of other authors or exclusively with his own (as in the Folio of 1623 and the Works of the eighteenth century), while on the other, his texts were fragmented and dispersed in commonplace books and anthologies of their finest passages.

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