Memory in Shakespeare's Histories: Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

by Jonathan Baldo

A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare's later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended with what were perceived to be traumatic breaks in its history and in the fashioning of a sense of nationhood. For plays ostensibly designed to recover the past and make it available to the present,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415896835
• ISBN13: 9780415896832
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"