"It's awesome": Creative Minority Report praises new Joseph Pearce book

From Matthew Archbold on his Creative Minority Report site, in praise of Joseph Pearce's new book, Shakespeare on Love: Seeing the Catholic Presence in Romeo and Juliet (Ignatius Press, 2013):

I've never written a book but I imagine it's pretty hard work and then
to see some dopey blogger critiquing it by saying he liked it but
(insert any old dumb complaint here,) just seems nasty. So I'm telling
you all this to tell you that I don't write reviews with "buts." Either
I'm all in or I'm silent. So here's my but-less review of Joseph
Pearce's "Shakespeare on Love:"



It's awesome. I feel smart for having read it and that takes a lot for a
guy like me. I've read Romeo and Juliet a few times and always felt
that there was something missing from the interpretations I've read. I
mean, I always knew that Shakespeare wasn't holding them up as models of
great love. But Joseph Pearce brilliantly points out what I've been
missing. Heck, not only me but pretty much most modern interpretations
of the play.



The book doesn't go into a lot of rigmarole trying to prove
Shakespeare's Catholicism because Pearce already did that in previous
books. So if you're willing to assume Shakespeare was at least a fairly
serious Catholic (which you should) then Pearce's most recent work takes
that into his analysis of the play.



And I hate even saying "analysis" of the play because that sounds all
high falutin and stuff. This book is brilliant but it's not stuffy. It
doesn't sound like Pearce was covered in tweed and smoking a pipe as he
wrote it. He may have been for all I know. It just doesn't sound like
it.

Read the entire review. You can also read the Prologue to the book  on Insight Scoop.