Shakespeare and Catholic education

Exploring Catholic Faith in Shakespearean Drama: Towards a Philosophy of Education (Routledge, 2025) is a new volume that investigates the connection between William Shakespeare and Catholic education, arguing that Shakespeare’s plays explore Catholic understandings of human life in ways that remain relevant for Catholic educational institutions today. One of the co-authors of Exploring Catholic Faith in Shakespearean Drama is Luke Taylor, S.J., a Jesuit scholastic and student in the Clough School of Theology and Ministry. Taylor, who holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, and co-authors David Torevell and Brandon Schneeberger demonstrate Shakespeare’s wide-ranging engagement with early modern Catholic belief and practice. At the same time, they argue that Shakespeare’s treatment of Catholic faith, through imaginative literature rather than magisterial discourse, and dramatically rather than didactically, provides a pedagogical model for contemporary teachers. Taylor talked about the book on AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast.

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