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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 The Winter’s Tale, the 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. .
Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion. --- Šekspir, Vil'jam --- Literature, Medieval. --- Literature, Modern. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Medieval Literature. --- Shakespeare. --- Literary History. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation
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Examines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights.
Culture in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Sex role in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Czech literature --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism
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Golem. --- Jewish ghettos --- Legends --- Libuše (Legendary character). --- Prague (Czech Republic) --- In literature.
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Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has been somewhat overlooked, with previous scholarship on its writers and artists generally confined to the role played by the French court of King Charles V and the Italian city states of Milan and Florence. This book aims to fill that gap. It argues that Richard's marriage to Anne of Bohemia, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, one of the greatest rulers and patrons of the age, exposed England to the full extent of this international court culture. Ricardian writers, including Chaucer, Gower and the Gawain-poet, wrote in their native language not because they felt "English" in the modern national sense but because they aspired to be part of a burgeoning vernacular European culture stretching from Paris to Prague and from Brabant to Brandenburg; thus, one of the major periods of English literature can only be properly understood in relation to this larger European context.
Literature, Medieval --- Bohemianism in literature. --- English literature --- Influence. --- History and criticism --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- 1066-1500 --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Intellectual life --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Anne of Bohemia. --- Bohemian culture. --- Chaucer. --- European culture. --- Gawain poet. --- Richard II. --- court. --- international court culture. --- medieval literature. --- History and criticism.
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Christian art and symbolism --- Religion --- Jesus Christ --- India
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