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This collection of eleven essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other. These notable scholars take on a broad range of topics, including the falsified Hitler diaries, the creation of national identity in Bohemia, and Jean-Etienne Liotard's fraudulent "Turkish" identity. Each essay asks how forgery-at once the work of a criminal and a "master"-has shaped modern culture and challenged our understandings of authorship and value.
First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition
and customs in the court of Richard II. Bohemian culture exercised
an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has
been somewhat overlooked, with previous scholarship on its writers
and artists generally confined to the role played by the French
courtof King Charles V and the Italian city states of Milan and
Florence. This book aims to fill that gap. It argues that Richard's
marriage to Anne of Bohemia, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV, one of the greatest rulersand patrons of the age,
exposed England to the full extent of this international court
culture. Ricardian writers, including Chaucer, Gower and the
Gawain-poet, wrote in their native language not because they felt
"English" in the modern national sense but because they aspired to
be part of a burgeoning vernacular European culture stretching from
Paris to Prague and from Brabant to Brandenburg; thus, one of the
major periods of English literature can only be properly understood
in relation to this larger European context.
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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