“The Bay Trees … Are All Withered”: Ecological Trauerspiel in Richard II

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/sel.2022.0001

Natalie Suzelis

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Abstract

Abstract:This article places Richard II at the historical conjuncture of feudal dissolution and the ecological transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age. I suggest that Richard II exemplifies a particular genre of ecological Trauerspiel in its Benjaminian view of history, tragedy, and time. Although Richard Halpern and Zenon Luis-Martinez have made the case for reading Richard II as Trauerspiel, I argue that the play’s dual sense of history and tragedy is ultimately indebted to the political and ecological terrain—the literal earth—on which it is enacted.

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.