1st Edition
Shakespearean Temporalities History on the Early Modern Stage
By Lukas Lammers
Copyright 2018
236 Pages
by
Routledge
452 Pages
by
Routledge
452 Pages
by
Routledge
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Shakespearean Temporalities addresses a critical neglect in Early Modern Performance and Shakespeare Studies, revising widely prevailing and long-standing assumptions about the performance and reception of history on the early modern stage. Demonstrating that theatre, at the turn of the seventeenth century, thrived on an intense fascination with perceived tensions between (medieval) past and... Read more
Chapter 1: Prologue
Chapter 2: The ‘Rivalling Collaboration’ of Dramatic Historiography – 1 Henry VI, Henry V, and The
Famous Victories
Chapter 3: Shifting Perspective, Performing Pastness – Richard II
Chapter 4: Religious Revisions of the Past – King John
Chapter 5: Genre, Geography, and History – Macbeth, a Jacobean History Play
Chapter 6: Epilogue
Biography
Lukas Lammers is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published articles on early modern culture and literature and is co-editor of Shakespeare Seminar.
