Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages - Maimed Rights (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Release date:	2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Alfred Thomas
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	260
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-007965-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	3-03-007965-1
Barcode:	9783030079659

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