{"product_id":"shakespeare-catholicism-and-the-middle-alfred-thomas-9783030079659","title":"Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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 \u003ci\u003eRichard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale, \u003c\/i\u003ethe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfred Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030079651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030079659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.58d","brand":"Alfred Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46685710516479,"sku":"9783030079659","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a92de3b-f0cc-43d1-96a4-3d540b150fc4.jpg?v=1741726532","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-catholicism-and-the-middle-alfred-thomas-9783030079659","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}