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King John (Mis)Remembered (Paperback)
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King John (Mis)Remembered (Paperback)
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King John's evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring
than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to
Shakespeare's portrayal of him. The paradox is even greater when we
realize that this portrait of John endures despite Shakespeare's
portrait of him in the play King John, where he hardly comes off as
a villain at all. Here Igor Djordjevic argues that the story of
John's transformation in cultural memory has never been told
completely, perhaps because the crucial moment in John's change
back to villainy is a literary one: it occurs at the point when the
'historiographic' trajectory of John's character-development
intersects with the 'literary' evolution of Robin Hood. But as
Djordjevic reveals, John's second fall in cultural memory became
irredeemable as the largely unintended result of the work of three
men - John Stow, Michael Drayton, Anthony Munday - who knew each
other and who all read a significant passage in a little known book
(the Chronicle of Dunmow), while a fourth man's money (Philip
Henslowe) helped move the story from page to stage. The rest, as
they say, is history. Paying particular attention to the work of
Michael Drayton and Anthony Munday who wrote for the Lord Admiral's
Men, Djordjevic traces the cultural ripples their works created
until the end of the seventeenth century, in various familiar as
well as previously ignored historical, poetic, and dramatic works
by numerous authors. Djordjevic's analysis of the playtexts'
source, and the personal and working relationship between the
playwright-poets and John Stow as the antiquarian disseminator of
the source text, sheds a brighter light on a moment that proves to
have a greater significance outside theatrical history; it has
profound repercussions for literary history and a nation's cultural
memory.
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