Title: Performing early modern trauma from Shakespeare to Milton
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.
Subjects: Death in literature, English Historical drama, English drama (Tragedy), English literature, History, History and criticism, History in literature, Literature and history, Loss (Psychology) in literature, Murder in literature, Psychic trauma in literature, Regicides in literature, Violence in literature, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Historical drama, history and criticism, English drama, history and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, English drama, Nationalism in literature, Théâtre anglais, Histoire et critique, Histoire dans la littérature, Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature, Nationalisme dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Early modern and Elizabethan, Early modern
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700