A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare
- Author / Editor
- Thomas, Alfred.
A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xi, 239 pp.
- Description
- Studies artistic, religious, and political exchanges between England and Bohemia in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Anne of Bohemia's influence in England, Wyclif's influence in Bohemia, Shakespeare's formulation of Bohemia, and the history of English men and women in Prague. Among topics of cultural exchange, Thomas discusses concerns with Troy in the two countries (mentioning TC) and the ways that Anne of Bohemia influenced English artists and writers, including Chaucer, from her arrival until the Merciless Parliament in 1388. Comments on a number of Czech and English works, such as PF, LGW, SNT, "Pearl," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.