Examines dramatic acts of nostalgia as rhetorical moves designed to precipitate future actionOffers sophisticated readings of literary, religious, and political texts alongside Shakespeare's works to show how he develops his own use of nostalgia and how that use influences his contemporariesPro...

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1. Verfasser:	Johanson, Kristine 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2022
Schriftenreihe:	Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
Schlagworte:	Shakespeare, William > 1564-1616 Geschichte 1558-1603 Literary Studies LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism Nostalgie Englisch Drama
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-20 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	Examines dramatic acts of nostalgia as rhetorical moves designed to precipitate future actionOffers sophisticated readings of literary, religious, and political texts alongside Shakespeare's works to show how he develops his own use of nostalgia and how that use influences his contemporariesProposes new interpretations of how the history plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries (e.g. The Queen’s Men, Marlowe) influenced his own dramaProvides case studies offering new, revelatory readings of 2 Henry VI, Richard II, Julius Caesar as well as discussions of Henry V, King John and moreSuggests new ways to analyse and comprehend the structure of desire that is nostalgiaDiverging from critical paths that have focused on nostalgia as a memorializing practice or on Stuart nostalgia for Elizabeth, this book argues that Shakespeare’s Elizabethan history plays stage nostalgia as a future-focused political rhetoric. In doing so, the book suggests new directions for studying nostalgia. Case studies including Richard II and Julius Caesar demonstrate how Shakespeare creates a dramatic argument for nostalgia’s power and possibility, even as he represents the fruitlessness of trying to reclaim the past and the fiction of that past's ideal nature. In his dramaturgy, nostalgia functions as a persuasive call for (short-lived) political change. The book provides new interpretations of Shakespeare’s contemporaries to illustrate how his use of nostalgia depends on, innovates from and influences his fellow playwrights. By reading literary, religious and political texts alongside Shakespeare's histories, this book attends additionally to the extra-dramatic valences nostalgic rhetoric obtains in Elizabethan England
Beschreibung:	1 Online Resource (xiii, 206 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781474493567 9781474493574
DOI:	10.1515/9781474493567