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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790476503321

Autore

Baldo Jonathan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-49768-4

1-283-45906-X

9786613459060

1-136-49769-2

0-203-14212-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; ; 8

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Historical drama, English - History and criticism

Memory in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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