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Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
Maimed Rights
Taschenbuch von Alfred Thomas
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den 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).

Zusammenfassung

Places Shakespeare and his work in the religious and political context of his own time

Provides a new interpretation of the medieval influence on Renaissance plays

Examines the connectedness of religion, literature, and art

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".

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xv
260 S.
13 farbige Illustr.
260 p. 13 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030079659
ISBN-10: 3030079651
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thomas, Alfred
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 210 x 148 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Alfred Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,361 kg
Artikel-ID: 116789285
Über den 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).

Zusammenfassung

Places Shakespeare and his work in the religious and political context of his own time

Provides a new interpretation of the medieval influence on Renaissance plays

Examines the connectedness of religion, literature, and art

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".

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xv
260 S.
13 farbige Illustr.
260 p. 13 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783030079659
ISBN-10: 3030079651
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Thomas, Alfred
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 210 x 148 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Alfred Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,361 kg
Artikel-ID: 116789285
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