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Individual and Collective Memory in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy, Between Myth and National Identity.

In Richard III, Act 3, young Prince Edward's insistent questions about the origins of the Tower of London bring the issue of historical transmission to the foreground. Furthermore, the survival of truth across time is thematised throughout the first tetralogy. References to fame recur obsessively in...

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Published in:Caietele Echinox Vol. 44; pp. 29 - 45
Main Author: Caputo, Nicoletta
Format: Article
Published: Echinox Cultural Foundation 2023
Subjects:
Collective memory
Nationalism
Dramatists
Historiography
Manipulative behavior
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        Collective memory
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        Henry VI
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      ab: In Richard III, Act 3, young Prince Edward's insistent questions about the origins of the Tower of London bring the issue of historical transmission to the foreground. Furthermore, the survival of truth across time is thematised throughout the first tetralogy. References to fame recur obsessively in the three parts of Henry VI, while in Richard III, Shakespeare subtly plays with a historical and historiographical tradition that is much indebted to memorial transmission. In this play, historical distortion is materialised in the deformed body of its protagonist, who becomes the emblem of a past reinterpreted and rewritten in the light of present interests. The article will show how, on the one hand, the dramatist goes beyond what already was a "vituperative history" and brings the so-called Tudor myth to its apex while, on the other hand, undermining this same myth.
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