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- Title
In the Mean Season: Richard II and the Nostalgic Politics of Hospitality.
- Authors
Johanson, Kristine
- Abstract
In Shakespeare's Richard II, the language of absent hospitality refracts the dire economic and food crises facing mid-1590s England, and it interrogates the contemporary response to the problem of dearth through its use of images of desolation, dearth, and grief. As absent hospitality proves to be a consequence of tyranny, the idealised past is invoked as a model for political action, to reclaim what is lost for the future. The respective future-oriented nostalgias if Gaunt and Northumberland articulate that possibility of reclamation, which Richard II ultimately rejects in its suspicion of past, present, andfuture.
- Subjects
NORTHUMBERLAND (England); RICHARD II (Play : Shakespeare); NOSTALGIA in literature; HOSPITALITY in literature; FOOD shortages; POLITICAL participation in literature; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; HISTORY
- Publication
Parergon, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
0313-6221
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/pgn.2016.0075