Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages Maimed Rights /

• Main Author: Thomas, Alfred (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Literature-History and criticism.; Medieval Literature.; Shakespeare.; Literary History.

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...

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".