Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - BOOK PB - University of Alabama Press SE - x + 238 pp. CY - Tuscaloosa ID - aaao3 T1 - Bold Conscience: Luther to Shakespeare to Milton AU - Held, Joshua R PY - 2023 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Examines role of moral conscience in early modern literary culture, particuarly "bold conscience" which is uncompromising and refuses to be ignored. Offers Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry VIII as case studies of bold conscience, arguing that in Hamlet "the conscience of the protagonist shifts from cowardice to politicized boldness." ER -