Name: Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights (The new Middle Ages)
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Author: Alfred Thomas
ISBN: 9783030079659

portada Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights (The new Middle Ages)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Author

Alfred Thomas

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

276

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9783030079659

Synopsis "Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights (The new Middle Ages)"

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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