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