Shakespearean Temporalities: History on the Early Modern Stage

ISBN-13: 9780367591878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Lukas Lammers

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.