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The Time Is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England

The Time is Out of Joint situates the work of four skeptics--Reginald Scot, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare--within the context of religious and social change. These four writers responded to the dislocations of the newly formed Protestant nation by raising bold and often disturbing questions about religion and epistemology. The historical topics covered in this book--witchcraft debates, New World discovery, economic struggle, and religious reformation--reveal the diverse contexts in which skepticism appeared and the many contributions skepticism made to a nation undergoing radical change and in the process of re-thinking many of its long-standing basic assumptions. --University of Delaware.

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