How Long to Read Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton

How Long Does it Take to Read Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton by Thomas P. Anderson

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Description

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 the past and in their reenactment of loss that is part of any effort to represent traumatic history. Incorporating contemporary theories of memory and loss, Thomas Anderson here analyzes works by Shakepeare, Marlowe, Webster, Marvell and Milton. Where other studies about violent loss in the period tend to privilege allegorical readings that equate the content of art to its historical analogue, this study insists that artistic representations are performative as they commemorate the past. By interrogating the difficulty in representing historical crises in poetry, drama and political prose, Anderson demonstrates how early modern English identity is the fragile product of an ambivalent desire to flee history. This book's major contribution to Renaissance studies lies in the way it conceives the representations of violent loss-secular and religious-in early modern texts as moments of failed political and social memorialization. It offers a fresh way to understand the development of historical and national identity in England during the Renaissance.

How long is Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton?

Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton by Thomas P. Anderson is 343 pages long, and a total of 86,779 words.

This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 54 minutes to read Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton aloud.

What Reading Level is Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton?

Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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