Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 224 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350067257
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9781350067233
Series Statement:
The Arden Shakespeare
Content:
"In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During James's reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, comparing him with his predecessor - not always in a way that was either flattering or pleasing to James. Critics have traditionally assumed that Shakespeare avoided involving himself in this discourse. In this study of Shakespeare's Jacobean plays, however, Yuichi Tsukada demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex politics behind the nostalgia. Based upon close readings of Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline and Henry VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson, the book traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth. Yuichi Tsukada offers fresh insights into enigmatic aspects of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama. For instance, what was the original significance of the two contentious prophecies - 'none of woman born' and the march of Birnam Wood - in Macbeth? Or that of the seemingly out-of-place triumphal procession of Volumnia near the tragic end of Coriolanus? Although her memory recurred in all forms of discourse throughout the first decade of James's reign, the impact of this cultural undercurrent on Shakespeare's Jacobean drama has been ignored or underestimated. Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia reveals the unnoticed richness of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural and political nostalgia for England's dead queen."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350067226
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tsukada, Yuichi Shakespeare and the politics of nostalgia London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2019 ISBN 9781350067226
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350067229
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Elisabeth I. England, Königin 1533-1603
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Rezeption
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Englisch
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Drama
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Geschichte 1603-1625
DOI:
10.5040/9781350067257
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