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Too Majestic for Ornament

From the January 1998 Print Edition

Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays . By Peter J. Leithart. Cannon Press (Moscow, ID). 284 pp. $15.50 Shakespeare hardly lacked esteem in his own age. His contemporaries took appraising and even jealous notice of him. Ben Jonson, nine years his younger, offered . . . . Continue Reading »