Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages : Maimed Rights

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages : Maimed Rights - The New Middle Ages

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Publisher's Synopsis

Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare's Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing these and other plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries with their medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly intolerant and partisan age. 

Book information

ISBN: 9783319902173
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 822.33
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 602g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 22mm