Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton
Whereas most historicist criticism looks at the period's historiographic impulses in order to determine a text's sociopolitical intentions, Anderson's gaze is more distinctly psychoanalytic: he is concerned with how a text registers conflicting desires to recall historical events, as...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Shakespeare quarterly 2006, Vol.57 (4), p.487-489 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Whereas most historicist criticism looks at the period's historiographic impulses in order to determine a text's sociopolitical intentions, Anderson's gaze is more distinctly psychoanalytic: he is concerned with how a text registers conflicting desires to recall historical events, as well as to move beyond them. Titus, Anderson argues, seeks to collapse word and deed according to a sacramental aesthetic that the iconoclastic Foxe is at pains to dismantle; in its violence, the play bears witness to how "the Reformation presses its claim on the narrative of a Roman legacy that informs the structure of power in Elizabethan culture" (39). |
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ISSN: | 0037-3222 1538-3555 1538-3555 |
DOI: | 10.1353/shq.2006.0088 |