Performing early modern trauma from Shakespeare to Milton
By: by Thomas P. Anderson.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; History in literature.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Historical drama, English -- History and criticism.; English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Loss (Psychology) in literature.; Psychic trauma in literature.; Regicides in literature.; Violence in literature.; Murder in literature.; Death in literature.
Description: "An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry, and drama in early modern England. It focuses on the connection of representation of violence in literary works to historical traumas such as royal death, secularization, and regicide. The author contends that dramatic and poetic forms function as historical archives both in their commemoration of the past and in their reenactment of loss that is part of any effort to represent traumatic history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : performing trauma; title: Reading martyred history in Titus Andronicus; title: Richard II and the politics of murder; title: Edward II and the aesthetics of survival; title: The art of playing dead in revenge tragedy; title: Representing regicide : royal death and Renaissance distraction.