LEADER 03441oam 2200553I 450 001 9910154586903321 005 20230808200656.0 010 $a1-315-24713-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315247137 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758691 035 $a(OCoLC)965444375 035 $a(BIP)59818355 035 $a(BIP)12909632 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965368 100 $a20180706e20162006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerforming early modern trauma from Shakespeare to Milton /$fThomas P. Anderson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aFirst published 2006 by Ashgate. 311 08$a0-7546-5564-4 311 08$a1-351-91214-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Haunting allegories -- pt. 2. Exhuming effigies. 330 $aAn examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England. It focuses on the connection of representation of violence in literary works to historical traumas such as royal death, secularization and regicide. The author contends that dramatic and poetic forms function as historical archives both in their commemoration of the past and in their reenactment of loss that is part of any effort to represent traumatic history. Incorporating contemporary theories of memory and loss, Thomas Anderson here analyzes works by Shakepeare, Marlowe, Webster, Marvell and Milton. Where other studies about violent loss in the period tend to privilege allegorical readings that equate the content of art to its historical analogue, this study insists that artistic representations are performative as they commemorate the past. By interrogating the difficulty in representing historical crises in poetry, drama and political prose, Anderson demonstrates how early modern English identity is the fragile product of an ambivalent desire to flee history. This book's major contribution to Renaissance studies lies in the way it conceives the representations of violent loss-secular and religious-in early modern texts as moments of failed political and social memorialization. It offers a fresh way to understand the development of historical and national identity in England during the Renaissance. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHistory in literature 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aHistorical drama, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHistory in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aHistorical drama, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/35809031 700 $aAnderson$b Thomas Page$f1968-,$0959063 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154586903321 996 $aPerforming early modern trauma from Shakespeare to Milton$92172842 997 $aUNINA