Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights

by Alfred Thomas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030079651
• ISBN13: 9783030079659
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"