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Jonathan Baldo
Jonathan Baldo
Institution: Department of Humanities, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, 26 Gibbs Street,
Email: jbaldo@esm.rochester.edu
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Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/h11030059
2022-05-21Indirectly addressing the authorship question in the anonymous The Reign of King Edward III, this paper focuses on a signature of Shakespeare’s treatment of English history, a concern with the political implications of remembering and forgetting. Multiple ironies attend the unstable relation of remembering and forgetting in the play. The opening of Edward III gives the impression that England’s forgetful enemies, Scotland and France, require schooling by a nation that appears to own memory. However, initial appearances prove to be deceiving, as three early Shakespearean scenes prominently feature lapses of English memory, causing the early alignment of England with faithful memory to slip away. There are traces of a distinctly Shakespearean approach to history—one that interrogates the mixed effects of historical memory itself and the values commonly assigned to remembering and forgetting—in The Reign of King Edward III. A consideration of the scenes that share the practice of Shakespeare’s histories—of not simply reviving the past but also reflecting on the motivations and conflicts associated with recollection—accords well with previous attributions of those scenes to Shakespeare on stylistic grounds.
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2024 September | 1 | 1 |
2024 August | 29 | 29 |
2024 July | 35 | 35 |
2024 June | 24 | 24 |
2024 May | 37 | 37 |
2024 April | 46 | 46 |
2024 March | 38 | 38 |
2024 February | 24 | 24 |
2024 January | 18 | 18 |
2023 December | 28 | 28 |
2023 November | 39 | 39 |
2023 October | 16 | 16 |
2023 September | 12 | 12 |
2023 August | 13 | 13 |
2023 July | 16 | 16 |
2023 June | 11 | 11 |
2023 May | 24 | 24 |
2023 April | 26 | 26 |
2023 March | 38 | 38 |
2023 February | 1 | 1 |
2023 January | 4 | 4 |
2022 December | 21 | 21 |
2022 November | 54 | 54 |
2022 October | 33 | 33 |
2022 September | 31 | 31 |
2022 August | 81 | 81 |
2022 July | 60 | 60 |
2022 June | 104 | 104 |
2022 May | 29 | 29 |
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