Memory in Shakespeare's Histories
Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England
A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare's later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended with what were perceived to be traumatic breaks in its history and in the fashioning of a sense of nationhood. For plays ostensibly designed to recover the past and make it available to the present, they devote remarkable attention to the ways in which states and individuals alike passively neglect or actively suppress the past and rewrite history. Two broad and related historical development…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-136-49768-1
- EAN: 9781136497681
- Produktnummer: 13816662
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 218 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 307 KB
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Jonathan Baldo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester, USA.
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