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This chapter comes with a warning: it is made up of generalisations, and is a simplified view of conflicting world-views that were competing with each other in Shakespeare’s time. I advise readers to follow up at least some of the suggestions in ‘Further Reading’ (at the end of this book), in order to achieve a more sophisticated understanding of the early-modern background than this short chapter can provide.
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Marsh, N. (2003). The Context. In: Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays. Analysing Texts. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1917-5_9
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