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Stages of History - Shakespeare's English Chronicles (Paperback, New)
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Stages of History - Shakespeare's English Chronicles (Paperback, New)
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Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English
history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid
cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the
study of history a new urgency. Rackin situates Shakespeare's
English chronicles among multiple discourses, particularly the
controversies surrounding the functions of poetry, theater, and
history. She focuses on areas of contention in Renaissance
historiography that are also areas of concern in recent
criticism-historical authority and causation, the problems of
anachronism and nostalgia, and the historical construction of class
and gender. She analyzes the ways in which the perfoace of history
in Shakespeare's theater participated-and its representation in
subsequent criticism still participates-in the contests between
opposed theories of history and between the different ideological
interests and historiographic practices they authorize. Celebrating
the heroic struggles of the past and recording the patriarchal
genealogies of kings and nobles, Tudor historians provided an
implicit rationale for the hierarchical order of their own time;
but the new public theater where socially heterogeneous audiences
came together to watch common players enact the roles of their
social superiors was widely perceived as subverting that order.
Examining such sociohistorical factors as the roles of women and
common men and the conditions of theatrical performance, Rackin
explores what happened when elite historical discourse was trans
porteto the public commercial theater. She argues that
Shakespeare's chronicles transformed univocal historical writing
into polyphonic theatrical scripts that expressed the
contradictions of Elizabethan culture.
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