Ignatius Insight: Finding Shakespeare and Reclaiming the Classics | An Interview with Joseph Pearce
Carl Olson has a fascinating interview on Ignatius Insight with Joseph Pearce, the author of " The Quest for Shakespeare . " The interview then continues on to discuss the new Ignatius Critical Editions (ICEs) which will be published as new editions of classics devoid of modernist "PC" additions and/or "critical commentary" so prevalent today in book sets. Here is a snippet of the interview: Ignatius Insight: There has been a tremendous amount of debate in recent years about Shakespeare's identity and the nature of his religious beliefs. Can you provide a basic overview to those debates? Pearce: I give an overview of the various aspects of this debate in the opening chapter of my book. I show that the claims of those who say that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the plays are fundamentally flawed and are rooted in an ignorance of the real William Shakespeare. I then show that the claims of those who believe that Shakespeare was a Protestant or t