Shakespeare’s Golden Ages

Examines dramatic acts of nostalgia as rhetorical moves designed to precipitate future action Offers sophisticated readings of literary, religious, and political texts alongside Shakespeare's works to show how he develops his own use of nostalgia and how that use influences his contemporariesProposes new interpretations of how the history plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries (e.g. The Queen’s Men, Marlowe) influenced his own dramaProvides case studies offering new, revelatory readings of 2 Henr