Shakespeare's World | The Sense of History in Renaissance England
Articles elsewhere in this set deal with Shakespeare's use of history in the two eras that interested him most, Lancastrian England and republican Rome. Many other eras of history were known in Renaissance England, and in reviewing their full range, one necessarily enters into modes of historical awareness in which Shakespeare seems not to have been interested or that he did not exploit as a dramatist. It is possible, however, that traces of some of these other modes may be found in his writings, and it may be instructive to consider why he did not exploit fields of history that were...
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