- Author
- Year
- 2016
- Title
- In the Mean Season
- Subtitle
- Richard II and the Nostalgic Politics of Hospitality
- Journal
- Parergon
- Volume | Issue number
- 33 | 2
- Pages (from-to)
- 57-78
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
- Abstract
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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 consequence of tyranny, the idealised past is invoked as a model for political action, to reclaim what is lost for the future. The respective future-oriented nostalgias of Gaunt and Northumberland articulate that possibility of reclamation, which Richard II ultimately rejects in its suspicion of past, present, and future.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Related publication
- Approaches to Early Modern Nostalgia
- Related publication
- On the Possibility of Early Modern Nostalgias
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/c49530d5-60bd-429b-9dbd-0203a1fce77c
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