Thomas P. Anderson. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton.(Book review)

From: Comparative Drama | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Thomas P. Anderson. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. viii + 225. $94.95.

There are at least three ways to think about what happens when we describe the past in narrative. One view, associated with Hayden White and Roland Barthes, holds that we inevitably understand the past in narrative terms, and that what seems like an independent "event" is in fact comprehensible only in relation to a sequence of events. Without narrative, no past. A second view, articulated by a range of writers from Thomas Carlisle to Michele ...

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