Memory in Shakespeare's histories : stages of forgetting in early modern England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baldo, Jonathan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:	Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 8.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Histories. Historical drama, English > History and criticism. Memory in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Be our ghost
Birth of a nation from the spirit of tragedy: the historical sublime in Richard II
All is truancy: rebellious uses of the past in Henry IV
Washed in lethe: laundering the past in Henry IV
Wars of memory in Henry V
Coda: the history play as palimpsest in King John.