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1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Note on the Text; Acknowledgments; Introduction Of Critics and Dashed Scholarly Expectations; 1 Reclaiming John from the Monks; 2 Ground Zero: Peele, Shakespeare, and the Birth of the Topical Cluster; 3 John Stow at the Crossroads of Memory, Legend, and Theatrical History; 4 Munday's Alternate History and the Topical Cluster of King John; 5 The Sexy Side of History and the Specter of Bastardy: Look About You; 6 Historical Poesy Strikes Back; 7 Dunmow Redivivus: Vallans, Daniel, and Davenport; 8 Connecting the Dots: The Long Shadow of Dunmow; References; Index |
| Summary |
King John's evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespeare's portrayal of him. The paradox is even greater when we realize that this portrait of John endures despite Shakespeare's portrait of him in the play King John, where he hardly comes off as a villain at all. Here Igor Djordjevic argues that the story of John's transformation in cultural memory has never been told completely, perhaps because the crucial moment in John's change back to villainy is a literary one: it occurs at the point when the 'hist |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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John, King of England, 1167-1216 -- In literature
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John, King of England, 1167-1216 -- Influence
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John, King of England, 1167-1216 fast |
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Kings and rulers in literature.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History
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Collective memory and literature -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Collective memory and literature
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Historiography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Kings and rulers in literature
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Literature
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Literature and society
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Great Britain -- History -- John, 1199-1216 -- Historiography
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472462053 |
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147246205X |
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