Killing Physicians

Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare’s great tragedies and late plays.

Diving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been Shakespeare’s answer to a world fraught with political and religious controversy.

John J. Norton, PhD, is professor and chair of the English department at Concordia University Irvine. His career as a Shakespeare scholar began at Sheffield Hallam University under the tutelage of Lisa Hopkins (Shakespearean Allusion in Detective Fiction and Renaissance Drama on the Edge). Norton has researched Shakespeare’s cultural influence all over the world, from Beijing, China, to Kolkata, India, to Kigali, Rwanda, to Leipzig, Germany. Norton enjoys research and uncovering new insight in the great Shakespeare canon as well as enticing undergraduates at Concordia University to read and appreciate the great Bard.