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"This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or ""facts"" of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that Shakespeare's histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. Highlighting the application of semiotics, it studies the playwright's use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shakespeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, contested, and circulated."

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Author:   Brian Carroll
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.351kg
ISBN:  

9781476685823

ISBN 10:   1476685827
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   30 May 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface 1. Inscribing a Nation: Patriotism, Nationalism, and National Identity 2. The Kingly Bastard and the Bastardly King: The Citizens of King John 3. The Making of a King: Prince Hal's Mastery of Language in Redeeming His Time and Nation 4. Others: Henry V's Shimmering Irishman and Shakespeare's Spectrum of Exclusion 5. Wonder Women: Joan of Arc, Queen Margaret, and Gendering in the Three Parts of Henry VI 6. Time: Dream, Myth, and Memory in Richard III 7. Unking'd, ­Un-Named, and Undone: Erasure in Richard II 8. The Riddle of Cade's Rebellion: Disorder and Populist Revolt in Henry VI, Part II 9. Tyranny and the Crowd: Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Appropriations of the Roman Past Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Brian Carroll, a professor and chair of communication at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, is the author of seven books.

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