Shakespeare's Golden Ages: Resisting Nostalgia in Elizabethan Drama

by Kristine Johanson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474493548
• ISBN13: 9781474493543
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"