{"product_id":"shakespeares-golden-ages-kristine-johanson-9781474493550","title":"Shakespeare's Golden Ages: Resisting Nostalgia in Elizabethan Drama","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiverging 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 \u003ci\u003eRichard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eII\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristine Johanson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474493556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474493550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d","brand":"Kristine Johanson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458591830271,"sku":"9781474493550","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae86bc21-9629-4e24-a851-17a9ab56de38.jpg?v=1777405377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeares-golden-ages-kristine-johanson-9781474493550","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}