1st Edition
Memory in Shakespeare's Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England
By Jonathan Baldo
Copyright 2012
218 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Jonathan Baldo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester, USA.
