A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare

by Alfred Thomas

In The Winter's Tale, Antigonus announces that his ship has washed up on the shores of Bohemia. How and why landlocked Bohemia? Did Shakespeare not know his geography, or is something else at work here? Alfred Thomas answers these questions by exploring cross-cultural interactions between England and Bohemia from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth century. He is interested less in the diplomacy and politics of this history than in the images--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080144568X
• ISBN13: 9780801445682
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher