{"product_id":"imagining-time-in-the-english-chronicle-play-historical-futures-1590-1660-hardcover","title":"Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarissa Nicosia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660\u003c\/em\u003e argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays--plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars--in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough close readings of William Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003e1\u0026amp;2 Henry IV\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Richard III, \u003c\/em\u003e Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's \u003cem\u003eAll is True, \u003c\/em\u003e Samuel Rowley's \u003cem\u003eWhen You See Me, You Know Me\u003c\/em\u003e, John Ford's \u003cem\u003ePerkin Warbeck\u003c\/em\u003e, and the anonymous play pamphlets \u003cem\u003eThe Leveller's Levelled\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e1 \u0026amp; 2 Craftie Cromwell, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCharles I, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCromwell's Conspiracy\u003c\/em\u003e, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarissa Nicosia, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Renaissance Literature, Pennsylvania State University - Abington College\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarissa 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 \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Futures\u003c\/em\u003e, a special volume of \u003cem\u003eExplorations in Renaissance Culture\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), and \u003cem\u003eMaking Milton: Print, Authorship, Afterlives\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2021).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42390277685383,"sku":"9780198872658","price":153.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8164b38812768bb46d3ca2454c945a51.webp?v=1740989074","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/imagining-time-in-the-english-chronicle-play-historical-futures-1590-1660-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}