Anti-Historians: Women's Roles in Shakespeare's Histories

Rackin, Phyllis

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“…In the first sequence of history plays, Phyllis Rackin has shown, the French, and in particular French women, are depicted as "anti-historians" who threaten to disrupt the achievements of the English historical record. In the Henry VI plays, the English wage a battle against anti-historical forces-inevitably French and largely female-that would erase historical memory of English achievement (Rackin 1990;Rackin 1985). Similarly, the beginning of Edward III draws a sharp contrast between the historically minded Edward III, who is discussing with the Frenchman Robert the grounds for his claim to the throne of France, and a foreign enemy whose actions issue from what appears to be a lapse of memory.…”

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Memory Traces in The Reign of King Edward III

Baldo

2022

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Indirectly 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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Section: I: "High Treason" Against Memorymentioning

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Memory Traces in The Reign of King Edward III

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2022

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“…2 Lenz et al, 1980;Bamber, 1982;Dash, 1981;andFrench, 1981. Novy, 1984;Rackin, 1985Rackin, , 1987Helms, 1989;McLuskie, 1989;Callaghan, 1989;Rutter, 1988;Novy, 1990;and Kelly, 1990. [Much new feminist and gender-oriented theory on Shakespeare in performance is emerging in the 1990s. See Further Reading and other essays in this volume for examples-Eds.]…”

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The Routledge reader in gender and performance

1999

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The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents some of the most influential and widely known work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings in the field. This uniquely comprehensive volume spans the entire range of historical and theoretical approaches to the subject of gender and theatre. Taking a thoroughly international perspective, this book provides material on gender in the theatres of several countries, including post-apartheid South Africa and post-Communist Russia. This first collection of its kind in the field covers: • women's bodies on stage • feminist approaches • comparative perspectives • women's status in the theatre • reception and reviewing The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance reviews ways in which sexuality has been explored and expressed in new forms of performance art and dance. The articles are arranged systematically to guide the reader from topic to topic, and specially written linking articles by scholars and teachers explain key issues and put the extracts in context.

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“…Most spectacular of all, as a female complainant, is Queen Margaret in Richard III, who although literally dead by the time represented in Shakespeare's play, nevertheless wanders in and out of the plot to curse her enemies and organize the lamenting women into a unified group of what Phyllis Rackin has called "anti-historians" who challenge "official" English history. 35 These revenants, like Hamlet's father and Hamlet himself, continue to whisper to us the familiar words -""Remember me." They pass on as well to us their dread, hoping for justification in the historical record that has heretofore excluded them.…”

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“The dread of something after death”: Hamlet and the Emotional Afterlif

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2018

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Anti-Historians: Women's Roles in Shakespeare's Histories

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Memory Traces in The Reign of King Edward III

Memory Traces in The Reign of King Edward III

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