Jonathan Baldo

Memory in Shakespeare's Histories (eBook, ePUB)

Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136497681
• Artikelnr.: 38269790

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Baldo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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