Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton

by Thomas P. Anderson

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England. It focuses on the connection of representation of violence in literary works to historical traumas such as royal death, secularization and regicide. The author contends that dramatic and poetic forms function as historical archives both in their commemoration of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138274852
• ISBN13: 9781138274853
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.