In the Mean Season: Richard II and the Nostalgic Politics of Hospitality.
In Shakespeare's Richard II, the language of absent hospitality refracts the dire economic and food crises facing mid-1590s England, and it interrogates the contemporary response to the problem of dearth through its use of images of desolation, dearth, and grief. As absent hospitality proves to be a...
| Publicado en: | Parergon Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 57 - 79 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies
2016
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| Sumario: | In Shakespeare's Richard II, the language of absent hospitality refracts the dire economic and food crises facing mid-1590s England, and it interrogates the contemporary response to the problem of dearth through its use of images of desolation, dearth, and grief. As absent hospitality proves to be a consequence of tyranny, the idealised past is invoked as a model for political action, to reclaim what is lost for the future. The respective future-oriented nostalgias if Gaunt and Northumberland articulate that possibility of reclamation, which Richard II ultimately rejects in its suspicion of past, present, andfuture. |
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