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...

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Published in:	Parergon Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 57 - 79
Main Author:	Johanson, Kristine
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies 2016
Subjects:	Richard II (Play : Shakespeare) Nostalgia in literature Hospitality in literature Food shortages Political participation in literature Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 History Northumberland (England)
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