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Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510-1613 - Merry Worlds (Hardcover)
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Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510-1613 - Merry Worlds (Hardcover)
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For many people in early modern England the Reformation turned the
past into another country: the 'merry world'. Nostalgia for this
imaginary time, both widespread and widely contested, was
commodified by a burgeoning entertainment industry. This book
offers a new perspective on the making of 'Merry England', arguing
that it was driven both by the desires of audiences and the
marketing strategies of writers, publishers and playing companies.
Nostalgia in Print and Performance juxtaposes plays with ballads
and pamphlets, just as they were experienced by their first
consumers. It argues that these commercial fictions played a
central role in promoting and shaping nostalgia. At the same time,
the fantasy of the merry world offered a powerfully affective
language for conceptualising longing. For playwrights like
Shakespeare and others writing for the commercial stage, it became
a way to think through the dynamics of audience desire and the
aesthetics of repetition.
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