Description

---

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.

About the Author

---

John J. Norton, PhD, is professor and chair of the English department at Concordia University Irvine. His career as a Shakespeare scholar began at Sheffield Hallam University under the tutelage of Lisa Hopkins (Shakespearean Allusion in Detective Fiction and Renaissance Drama on the Edge). Norton has researched Shakespeare’s cultural influence all over the world, from Beijing, China, to Kolkata, India, to Kigali, Rwanda, to Leipzig, Germany. Norton enjoys research and uncovering new insight in the great Shakespeare canon as well as enticing undergraduates at Concordia University to read and appreciate the great Bard.

Praise For…

---

"All great literature is ultimately about the deeper themes of the human condition, and at some level, about spirituality as well. John Norton's "Killing Physicians" is a insightful and engaging work which ties Shakespeare's works to the thinking of the Reformation theologians whose content was being studied at the time. A highly informative and thought-provoking book, and highly recommended."

John Townsend, Ph.D.
New York Times bestselling author
Founder, Townsend Institute at Concordia University, Irvine
Psychologist

"All great literature is ultimately about the deeper themes of the human condition, and at some level, about spirituality as well. John Norton's "Killing Physicians" is a insightful and engaging work which ties Shakespeare's works to the thinking of the Reformation theologians whose content was being studied at the time. A highly informative and thought-provoking book, and highly recommended."

John Townsend, Ph.D.
New York Times bestselling author
Founder, Townsend Institute at Concordia University, Irvine
Psychologist