Shakespeare and the politics of nostalgia : negotiating the memory of Elizabeth I on the Jacobean stage

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    • 塚田, 雄一 ツカダ, ユウイチ

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Shakespeare and the politics of nostalgia : negotiating the memory of Elizabeth I on the Jacobean stage

Yuichi Tsukada

（The Arden Shakespeare, . Drama & performance studies）

Arden Shakespeare, 2020

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"First published in Great Britain 2019. This paperback edition published 2020"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical refrences (p. [200]-217) and index

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内容説明

In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During James's reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, comparing him with his predecessor - not always in a way that was either flattering or pleasing to James. Critics have traditionally assumed that Shakespeare avoided involving himself in this discourse. In this study of Shakespeare's Jacobean plays, however, Yuichi Tsukada demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex politics behind the nostalgia. Based upon close readings of Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline and Henry VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson, the book traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth. Yuichi Tsukada offers fresh insights into enigmatic aspects of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama. For instance, what was the original significance of the two contentious prophecies - 'none of woman born' and the march of Birnam Wood - in Macbeth? Or that of the seemingly out-of-place triumphal procession of Volumnia near the tragic end of Coriolanus? Although her memory recurred in all forms of discourse throughout the first decade of James's reign, the impact of this cultural undercurrent on Shakespeare's Jacobean drama has been ignored or underestimated. Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia reveals the unnoticed richness of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural and political nostalgia for England's dead queen.

目次

Acknowledgements A Note on Texts Introduction 1 Macbeth: Performing a Caesarean Section on the Mother Country 2 Antony and Cleopatra: The Competition for Representing the Queen 3 Coriolanus: Disarming the Memory of Elizabethan England 4 Cymbeline: The Politics of Remembering the Besieged Heroine Epilogue Bibliography Index

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