Memory in Shakespeare's histories : stages of forgetting in early modern England / Jonathan Baldo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldo, Jonathan, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 8.

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Histories.

Shakespeare, William.

Historical drama, English--History and criticism.

Historical drama, English.

Memory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Memory in Shakespeare's Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Be Our Ghost; 1 Birth of a Nation from the Spirit of Tragedy: The Historical Sublime in Richard II; 2 All Is Truancy: Rebellious Uses of the Past in 1 Henry IV; 3 "Washed in Lethe": Laundering the Past in 2 Henry IV; 4 Wars of Memory in Henry V; 5 Coda: The History Play as Palimpsest in King John; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613459060

9781136497681

1136497684

9781283459068

128345906X

9781136497698

1136497692

9780203142127

0203142128

OCLC:

798531425