Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights.

Description: Argues that Shakespeare and "his fellow dramatists . . . consciously revived . . . non-dramatic forms of medieval culture . . . in order to challenge the new constraints placed on public dissent by Tudor and Stuart absolutism" and affirm "the power of the powerless." Includes discussion of the "continuity in Christian attitudes to Jews" in PrT, "The Merchant of Venice," and Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta," exploring their similarities in depicting "anxieties about Christian involvement in a money economy" associated with Jews.

Chaucer Subjects: Prioress and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion