{"product_id":"imagining-time-in-the-english-marissa-nicosia-9780198872658","title":"Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660","description":"\u003cem\u003eImagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660\u003c\/em\u003e argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays--plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars--in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough close readings of William Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003e1\u0026amp;2 Henry IV\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Richard III, \u003c\/em\u003e Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's \u003cem\u003eAll is True, \u003c\/em\u003e Samuel Rowley's \u003cem\u003eWhen You See Me, You Know Me\u003c\/em\u003e, John Ford's \u003cem\u003ePerkin Warbeck\u003c\/em\u003e, and the anonymous play pamphlets \u003cem\u003eThe Leveller's Levelled\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e1 \u0026amp; 2 Craftie Cromwell, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCharles I, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCromwell's Conspiracy\u003c\/em\u003e, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marissa Nicosia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198872658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198872658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.30w x 1.20d","brand":"Marissa Nicosia","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46401522303231,"sku":"9780198872658","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b127038f-8dbf-4793-af91-62c0230e8dc7.jpg?v=1733887836","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-time-in-the-english-marissa-nicosia-9780198872658","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}