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Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion

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Examines the impact of the royal politics of amnesia on tragedy and national historiography in France, 1560-1630
This study argues that the political and legislative process of forgetting internal differences, undertaken in France after the civil wars of the sixteenth century, leads to subtle yet fundamental shifts in the broader conception of the relationship between readers or spectators on the one hand, and the matter of history, on the other. These shifts, occasioned by the desire for co...