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Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

Maimed Rights - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
260 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am26.01.2019Softcover 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.mehr
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KlappentextWhereas 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-07965-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum26.01.2019
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ReiheThe New Middle Ages
Seiten260 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht364 g
IllustrationenXV, 260 p. 13 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.51602387

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Maimed Rights in Shakespeare´s England.- 2. Pride and Penitence: Political and Moral Allegory in Medieval Arthurian Romance and Richard II.- 3. Demonizing the Other: The Prioress´s Tale, The Jew of Malta, and The Merchant of Venice.- 4. Writing, Memory, and Revenge in Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Hamlet.- 5. Afterlives of the Martyrs: King Lear, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Virgin Martyr.- 6.  Remember the Porter : Memorializing the Medieval Drama and the Gunpowder Plot in Macbeth.- 7. Conclusion: Shakespeare Our Contemporary .mehr
Kritik
"This ... is a timely book. It is also highly readable and easy to recommend: it is never less than stimulating, its parallels between medieval and later texts often illuminating and thought provoking." (Ivana Djordjevic , Speculum, Vol. 94 (4), October, 2019)mehr

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Autor

Alfred Thomas is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and is the author of ten books, including a Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare (2007); Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan 2014); and Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).