The next issue of the St. Austin Review is now at the printers. The theme is “Shakespeare and His Times”.

Highlights include:

Internationally acclaimed Shakespeare scholar, Peter Milward S.J., on The Hot Topic: Shakespeare as Catholic.

Aidan Nichols O.P. on St. Edmund Campion and His Message.

Jennifer Pierce muses “On Moods and Reason: The Orthodoxy of Hamlet”.

Carol Anne Jones, also musing on Hamlet, considers the “crisis of conscience” at the heart of the play.

Kevin O’Brien asks whether all’s well that ends well in Shakespeare’s play of that name.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker looks at “Shakespeare and the Movies”.

James Bemis, also at the movies, admires A Man For All Seasons.

Sophia Mason is also at the movies, discussing the best and worst of new independent films.

Fr. Lawrence Porter concludes his visit to New York’s Frick Collection.

Susan Treacy analyses “Papal Leglislation on Sacred Music”.

Mario Bird looks at the development of liturgical reform.

Matthew Alderman seeks to fuse Catholic Church architecture with the Spirit of the Liturgy.

Michael Kurek reviews Renewal and Resistance: Catholic Church Music from the 1850s to Vatican II.

James V. Schall S.J. waxes lyrical about the late Ralph McInerny.

Lorraine V. Murray wonders whether Flannery O’Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant are really “two of a kind”.

Fr. Benedit Kiely asks whether children can be saints.

Pavel Chichikov waxes lyrical in new poems on the topics of Hamlet and King Lear.

Last but hopefully not least are my own contributions: The editorial on the theme, “Shakespeare and His Times”, and an interview on the subject of “Shakespeare’s Fathers”.

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