Shakespeare's golden ages : resisting nostalgia in Elizabethan drama /

Shakespeare's golden ages : resisting nostalgia in Elizabethan drama /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Johanson, Kristine, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2022
Description:	xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12775985

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ISBN:	9781474493543 1474493548
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Diverging 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. --

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Rethinking Nostalgia
Against Nostalgia: Looking Forward to the Future in the Queen's Men's Plays and Marlowe's Tamburlaine
What Merry World in England? Nostalgic Paroemia and The Second Part of Henry VI
In the Mean Season: Richard II's Absent Hospitality
The Lessons of Nostalgia in Julius Caesar and Sejanus
Conclusion: Resisting Nostalgia.