Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613 Merry Worlds
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1470
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108482271
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book explores nostalgia for the recent past in early modern theatre and cheap print, juxtaposing plays and broadsides as they were encountered by their first consumers. It argues that the emerging entertainment economy transformed public memory of the past, repackaging divisive and sometimes seditious nostalgia into communal pleasure. The 'revival of mirth' was not a top-down Stuart phenomenon, but a market-driven process already well underway by 1600. It represents 8 years of research, funded by the AHRC and Leverhulme Trust, involving extensive comparative analysis of printed works, 300 broadside ballads (then only available in archives), court records, and manuscripts.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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