The Perspective
of the New Historicism
  E.
M. W. Tillyard, Elizabethan World Picture: A Study
of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne
and Milton (1943)
[alluded to in Montrose,
"Renaissance Literary Studies," p. 6]
 Hans
Holbein, The Ambassadors (1533)
[discussed in Greenblatt,
Renaissance Self-Fashioning, pp. 17 ff.]
Shakespeare, Richard II, IV.i.200-221
Bolingbroke. Are you contented to resign
the crown?
Richard. Ay, no; no, ay: for I resign
to thee.
Now, mark me how I will undo myself.
I give this heavy weight from off my head,
And this unwieldy scepter from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
With mine own hands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duteous oaths;
All pomp and majesty I do forswear;
My manors, rents, revenues, I forgo;
My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:
God pardon all oaths that are broke to me,
God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee.
Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,
And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved.
Long may'st though live in Richard's seat to sit,
And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit.
God save King Henry, unkinged Richard says,
And send him many years of sunshine days.
What more remains?
Frank Gehry House, Santa Monica, CA (1979) Images:
A
B
C
[discussed in Fredric Jameson,
Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
(Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 108 ff.]
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