TY - JOUR
T1 - "To plant me in mine own inheritance"
T2 - Prolepsis and pretenders in John Ford's Perkin Warbeck
AU - Nicosia, Marissa
N1 - Funding Information:
the theaters did and did not impact the circulation of printed drama. See Marissa Nicosia, “Printing as Revival: Making Playbooks in the 1650s,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 111 (2017): 469–89. 53 I would like to thank David Alff, Claire Falck, Carissa Harris, Thomas Koenigs, Joseph Malcomson, Thomas Ward, and the anonymous reviewers for providing thoughtful feedback on earlier drafts of this piece. I completed this article with the support of a short-term fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article investigates John Ford's use of mixed temporality to stage succession in Perkin Warbeck. Although Perkin aspires to be planted in his "own inheritance" and ascend to the throne, Ford's play first entertains and then dismisses the aspirations of this pretender. I argue that Ford's pretender plot is equally about the past and the future. The play represents both history as it unfolded and the possible counterfactual projected by Perkin's desired succession. I show that Ford's Perkin Warbeck, instead of revealing the limits of the history play, celebrates the affordances of the genre. These brief, dramatized chronicles bring pasts, presents, and futures to life on the stage.
AB - This article investigates John Ford's use of mixed temporality to stage succession in Perkin Warbeck. Although Perkin aspires to be planted in his "own inheritance" and ascend to the throne, Ford's play first entertains and then dismisses the aspirations of this pretender. I argue that Ford's pretender plot is equally about the past and the future. The play represents both history as it unfolded and the possible counterfactual projected by Perkin's desired succession. I show that Ford's Perkin Warbeck, instead of revealing the limits of the history play, celebrates the affordances of the genre. These brief, dramatized chronicles bring pasts, presents, and futures to life on the stage.
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U2 - 10.1353/sip.2018.0021
DO - 10.1353/sip.2018.0021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048678224
VL - 115
SP - 580
EP - 597
JO - Studies in Philology
JF - Studies in Philology
SN - 0039-3738
IS - 3
ER -