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
1. Verfasser: Hirschfeld, Heather
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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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).
ISSN:0037-3222
1538-3555
1538-3555
DOI:10.1353/shq.2006.0088