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Inscribing the time : Shakespeare and the end of Elizabethan England
- Title
- Inscribing the time : Shakespeare and the end of Elizabethan England / Eric S. Mallin.
- Author
- Mallin, Eric Scott.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 276 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign. Close attention to the language of Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night reveals how Shakespeare registered the consciousness of transition and ending that underlay England's social fabric at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The plays further register in complex ways the cultural presence of social or psychic crises. Troilus reflects the rebellion of the Earl of Essex and the failure of the courtly, chivalric style. Hamlet resonates with the danger of the bubonic plague and the difficult succession history of James I. Twelfth Night is imbued with nostalgia for an earlier period of Elizabeth's rule, when her control over religious and erotic affairs seemed more secure.
- Series Statement
- The New historicism ; 33
- Uniform Title
- New historicism ; 33.
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Homes and haunts > England
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- Shakespeare, William
- 1500-1603
- Literature and history > England > History > 16th century
- Dramatists, English > Homes and haunts > England
- Historicism in literature
- Dramatists, English > Homes and haunts
- Homes
- Intellectual life
- Literature and history
- Drama
- Zeithintergrund
- Literatur
- Geschichtsbewusstsein
- Historisme
- Hamlet, prince of Denmarke (Shakespeare)
- Twelfth Night, or, What you will (Shakespeare)
- Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- English Literature
- Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > 1558-1603 (Élisabeth I)
- Great Britain > History > Elizabeth, 1558-1603
- England > Intellectual life > 16th century
- England
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Emulous Factions and the Collapse of Chivalry: Troilus and Cressida -- 2. Word and Plague in the Second Quarto Hamlet -- 3. Succession, Revenge, and History: The Political Hamlet -- 4. "A twenty years' removed thing": Twelfth Night's Nostalgia.
- ISBN
- 0520086236
- 9780520086234
- LCCN
- 94028943
- OCLC
- ocm30895912
- 30895912
- SCSB-14698091
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library