Jeffrey Knapp. Shakespeare's Tribe: ecclesiastical authority Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England. Chicago: The University of Chicago Pres 2002 Pp xviii, 277.$36.00.ISBN 0-226-44569-0
The significance is fast approaching when literary scholars will no longer be able to claim that Shakespeare and religion is an unjustly omited topic, and Shakespeare's Tribe will hasten its arrival. Knapp's work distinguishes itself from a growing dead body of work that insists concerning the centrality of religion on emphasizing not habits of mind or ambient religiosity, still consciously held religious beliefs