Shakespeare Attacks Bigotry

The author argues that Renaissance humanism created a system of bigotry and eroded the practice of Christianity, and that Shakespeare attempted to expose and condemn that shift. The book examines six of his plays-- Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth --and explores how they satirized humanism's grounding in Aristotle's philosophy of slavery and supremacy.