DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2019.v05i07.009

Pages: 241-245

This paper examines some of the theoretical foundations of historical processes in the application of the Shakespeare vision, through which plays became the actual collective memory of the events they envision, even when those events are distorted. The debate over this distortion has focused on the possible political motives for applying Shakespeare. That this application on political intention, with official powers largely ignored the impact of these historical distortions was over 400 years later. I suggest that, because of Shakespeare's unique place in the historical calendar for the development of collective memory, Shakespeare's historical twisting application in history plays is a byproduct of the emerging ability to access historical sources while also shaping the emerging collective memory. Shakespeare became archon, in the sense of the Deriding, of English history. As such he exercised an interpretation of Areton's right to interpret English history.