{"product_id":"9783319902173","title":"The New Middle Ages: Maimed Rights","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe New Middle Ages: Maimed Rights\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eThomas, Alfred\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-06-29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319902173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-90218-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 260\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549070647436,"sku":"9783319902173","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319902173.jpg?v=1772029990","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783319902173","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}