Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play - Historical Futures, 1590-1660

This volume argues that early modern chronicle plays reckon with past, present, and future time, and in doing so they construct speculative and imagined futures on the stage and in print. It examines the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past.

List of contents

• Introduction: Historical Futures


• 1: Almanac Time: William Shakespeare's 1 and2 Henry IV and Sir John Oldcastle


• 2: Succession and Prolepsis: Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me and William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's Henry VIII


• 3: Counterfactual Pretenders: William Shakespeare's Richard III and John Ford's Perkin Warbeck


• 4: Bad News: Historical Futures in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Play Pamphlet


• 5: Commonplace Mourning: Imagining the Future after the Execution of King Charles I


• Coda: Future History: Mike Bartlett's Charles III

About the author

Marissa Nicosia is an Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature at the Pennsylvania State University - Abington College where she teaches, researches, and writes about literature, temporality, food history, and material texts. She is co-editor of Renaissance Futures, a special volume of Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2019), and Making Milton: Print, Authorship, Afterlives (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Summary

This volume argues that early modern chronicle plays reckon with past, present, and future time, and in doing so they construct speculative and imagined futures on the stage and in print. It examines the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past.

Product details

• Authors: Nicosia , Marissa Nicosia, Marissa (Associate Professor of Renaissan Nicosia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2023
• EAN: 9780198872658
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887265-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean