Read Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01)

Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01)

Philip P. Schwyzer

4.9/5 (18104 ratings)

Description:This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and work of William Shakespeare. In Richard III, Shakespeare depicts an era that had only recently passed beyond the horizon of living memory. The years between Shakespeare's birth in 1564 and the composition of the play in the early 1590s would have seen the deaths of the last witnesses to Richard's reign. Yet even after the extinction of memory, traces of the Yorkist era abounded in Elizabethan England - traces in the forms of material artefacts and buildings, popular traditions, textual records, and administrative and religious institutions and practices. Other traces had notoriously disappeared, not least the bodies of the princes reputedly murdered in the Tower, and the King's own body, which remained lost until its dramatic rediscovery in the summer of 2012. Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III charts the often complex careers of these piecesof the past over the course of a century framed on one side by the historical reign of Richard III (1483-85) and on the other by Shakespeare's play. Drawing on recent work in fields including archaeology, memory studies, and material biography, this book offers a fresh approach to the cultural history of the Tudor era, as well as a fundamentally new interpretation of the wellsprings and preoccupations of Richard III. The final emphasis is not only on what Shakespeare does with the traces of Richard's reign but also on what those traces do through Shakespeare--the play, in spite of its own pessimistic assumptions about history, has become the medium whereby certain fragments and remains of a long-lost world live on into the present day.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01). To get started finding Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN

Description: This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and work of William Shakespeare. In Richard III, Shakespeare depicts an era that had only recently passed beyond the horizon of living memory. The years between Shakespeare's birth in 1564 and the composition of the play in the early 1590s would have seen the deaths of the last witnesses to Richard's reign. Yet even after the extinction of memory, traces of the Yorkist era abounded in Elizabethan England - traces in the forms of material artefacts and buildings, popular traditions, textual records, and administrative and religious institutions and practices. Other traces had notoriously disappeared, not least the bodies of the princes reputedly murdered in the Tower, and the King's own body, which remained lost until its dramatic rediscovery in the summer of 2012. Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III charts the often complex careers of these piecesof the past over the course of a century framed on one side by the historical reign of Richard III (1483-85) and on the other by Shakespeare's play. Drawing on recent work in fields including archaeology, memory studies, and material biography, this book offers a fresh approach to the cultural history of the Tudor era, as well as a fundamentally new interpretation of the wellsprings and preoccupations of Richard III. The final emphasis is not only on what Shakespeare does with the traces of Richard's reign but also on what those traces do through Shakespeare--the play, in spite of its own pessimistic assumptions about history, has become the medium whereby certain fragments and remains of a long-lost world live on into the present day.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01). To get started finding Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01)

Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (2013-11-01)

More Books

Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales

Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

Humphrey Llwyd, 'The Breviary of Britain', with Selections from 'The History of Cambria'

Humphrey Llwyd, 'The Breviary of Britain', with Selections from 'The History of Cambria'

Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 by Simon Mealor (2004-03-17)

Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 by Simon Mealor (2004-03-17)

THE BEAUTIES OF THE LAND: BALE'S BOOKS, ASKE'S ABBEYS, AND THE AESTHETICS OF NATIONHOOD

THE BEAUTIES OF THE LAND: BALE'S BOOKS, ASKE'S ABBEYS, AND THE AESTHETICS OF NATIONHOOD

Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (5-Mar-2015) Hardcover

Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III by Philip Schwyzer (5-Mar-2015) Hardcover

[Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III] [Author: Schwyzer, Philip] [September, 2013]

[Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III] [Author: Schwyzer, Philip] [September, 2013]

Inventor of Britain: The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd

Inventor of Britain: The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd

[Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III] [By: Schwyzer, Philip] [November, 2013]

[Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III] [By: Schwyzer, Philip] [November, 2013]