Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England

Walter S H Lim is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature (2013); John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (2006); and The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (1998). He also co-edited the collection The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (2010).

• 1. Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England.- 2. Dying Unshriven and the Afterlife in Hamlet.- 3. Temptation, Fornication, and the Fall in Measure for Measure.- 4. Biblical Faith and Radical Politics in The Winter’s Tale.- 5. Grief, Gardens, and the Staging of Tragedy in Richard II.- 6. Surety, Usury, Hazard, and Spiritual Commercialism in The Merchant of Venice.