Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages Maimed Rights /
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 oppress...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
Σειρά: | The New Middle Ages
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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".