Strangers and Strange Lands in Shakespeare's Richard II
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2004.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Like most of Shakespeare’s history plays, Richard II is suffused with images of strangers and of strangeness. Fully participant in the national rhetoric of the play, foreign references primarily convey threats of invasion and contamination for an emergent nation-state. But these references are balanced by more positive ones to the Holy Land, holding the promise of redemptive pilgrimage. Yet both sets of references ultimately serve a home-oriented purpose, so that the land of unlikeness paradoxically turns out to be the land of sameness in the self-contained poetic world of Richard II.
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Like most of Shakespeare’s history plays, Richard II is suffused with images of strangers and of strangeness. Fully participant in the national rhetoric of the play, foreign references primarily convey threats of invasion and contamination for an emergent nation-state. But these references are balanced by more positive ones to the Holy Land, holding the promise of redemptive pilgrimage. Yet both sets of references ultimately serve a home-oriented purpose, so that the land of unlikeness paradoxically turns out to be the land of sameness in the self-contained poetic world of Richard II.
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