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 nostalgia's power and possibility,
even as he represents the fruitlessness of trying to reclaim the
past and the fiction of that past's ideal nature. In his
dramaturgy, nostalgia functions as a persuasive call for
(short-lived) political change. The book provides new
interpretations of Shakespeare's contemporaries to illustrate how
his use of nostalgia depends on, innovates from and influences his
fellow playwrights. By reading literary, religious and political
texts alongside Shakespeare's histories, this book attends
additionally to the extra-dramatic valences nostalgic rhetoric
obtains in Elizabethan England.
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