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  title info:
    title: Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages
    sub title: Maimed Rights
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Alfred.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 260 p. 13 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 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".
  note: by Alfred Thomas.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  subject:
    topic: Literature-History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Medieval Literature
  subject:
    topic: Shakespeare
  subject:
    topic: Literary History
  classification: PN661-694
  classification: 809.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The New Middle Ages
  identifier: 9783319902180
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90218-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 180618
    record change date: 20191025052438.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-90218-0