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.