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Harris, Ronald William.

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Telling stories, inventing histories: The reception and revision of the British history in early modern England.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Telling stories, inventing histories: The reception and revision of the British history in early modern England./
Author:	Harris, Ronald William.
Description:	322 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3035.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-07A.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9633507
ISBN:	9780591031850

Telling stories, inventing histories: The reception and revision of the British history in early modern England.
Harris, Ronald William.

Telling stories, inventing histories: The reception and revision of the British history in early modern England. - 322 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3035.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1996.

The reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae in sixteenth-century England varies according to the uses to which it is put, the boundary between historical fact and fiction shifting according to the present needs of the writer.

ISBN: 9780591031850Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Telling stories, inventing histories: The reception and revision of the British history in early modern England.
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520 $a Chapters two and three analyze revisions of the British History by Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare to show that they, like the historians, recognize and exploit the value of its status as a national myth. Chapter two argues that Spenser employs the British History in The Faerie Queene to instruct the poem's reader on the proper context in which to interpret English history: Arthur's response to Briton moniments suggests that the chaotic events themselves do not constitute the proper context; Merlin's prophecy asserts that divine providence is the proper context; the Malbecco episode illustrates the importance of human initiative in a providential world and the consequences of reading rightly, as Britomart does, and wrongly, as Paridell does; and the fairy chronicle offers an alternative version of English history, in which Protestant England is an elect nation, the proper context for interpreting English history. The third chapter, on King Lear and Cymbeline, based on legendary stories out of the British History, argues that Shakespeare employs prophecy and its interpretation to reveal the mechanics by which official histories are written. In King Lear, Shakespeare's revision of the chronicle tradition suggests that history is not fixed, a theme Shakespeare develops further in Cymbeline, where the soothsayer's interpretation of Jupiter's prophecy reveals the fictionality of history.
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