Spirit of Health or Goblin Damned: Shakespeare, the Supernatural, and Repentance

From the tragedies to The Tempest, Shakespeare enthusiasts Cindy Collins Smith and Amy Browning-Dill examine Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural and how it often reveals the spiritual states of the Bard’s protagonists. Along the way, they discuss the religious controversies so present in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, humility and contrition, mindfulness of death, and repentance.