Shakespeares Histories
Download Shakespeares Histories full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Shakespeares Histories ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2002-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521775397 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Shakespeare, a Reprint of His Collected Works as Put Forth in 1623 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Larry S. Champion |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082033846X |
Download Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.
Author | : Neema Parvini |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 147442354X |
Download Shakespeare's History Plays Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays
Author | : Peter Davison |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 2007-07-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141961414 |
Download Four Histories Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by Bolingbroke to the triumph of heroic kingship in Henry V.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781383009095 |
Download The Complete Oxford Shakespeare Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Here in a handy paperback format are all Shakespeare's histories (there are companion volumes of the comedies and tragedies), with brief introductions, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.
Author | : Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020-11-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1683932552 |
Download Like a King Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Like a King: Casting Shakespeare’s Histories for Citizens and Subjects is a dual examination of Shakespeare’s history plays in their early modern production contexts and of the ways the histories can speak directly to twenty-first-century American political and social concerns. Author and production director Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy examines how strategic doubled and re-gendered casting can animate the underlying questions of Richard II, Henry V, and King John in vital and immediate ways for American audiences. Examining evidence from both the archive and the rehearsal room, Gutierrez-Dennehy explores the texts as repositories for dialogues about power, gender, identity, nationhood, and leadership. With the American political system as its backdrop, Like a King argues that productions of Shakespeare’s histories can interrogate and explore the relationships between citizens, subjects, and their leaders.
Author | : John Julius Norwich |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2001-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743200314 |
Download Shakespeare's Kings Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.
Author | : Phyllis Rackin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 150172472X |
Download Stages of History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the study of history a new urgency. Rackin situates Shakespeare's English chronicles among multiple discourses, particularly the controversies surrounding the functions of poetry, theater, and history. She focuses on areas of contention in Renaissance historiography that are also areas of concern in recent criticism-historical authority and causation, the problems of anachronism and nostalgia, and the historical construction of class and gender. She analyzes the ways in which the perfoace of history in Shakespeare's theater participated—and its representation in subsequent criticism still participates—in the contests between opposed theories of history and between the different ideological interests and historiographic practices they authorize. Celebrating the heroic struggles of the past and recording the patriarchal genealogies of kings and nobles, Tudor historians provided an implicit rationale for the hierarchical order of their own time; but the new public theater where socially heterogeneous audiences came together to watch common players enact the roles of their social superiors was widely perceived as subverting that order. Examining such sociohistorical factors as the roles of women and common men and the conditions of theatrical performance, Rackin explores what happened when elite historical discourse was trans porteto the public commercial theater. She argues that Shakespeare's chronicles transformed univocal historical writing into polyphonic theatrical scripts that expressed the contradictions of Elizabethan culture.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 987 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1466884363 |
Download The History Plays Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
It is part of Shakespeare's extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king's absolute power was first limited and the people's freedoms assured, to--almost in his own lifetime--Henry VIII, Shakespeare wrote a series of ten plays portraying the course of history. It represents almost one third of his entire dramatic output. The overarching theme of these plays is the vital importance of the sovereign's legitimacy if the nation is to be stable. They cover revolutionary times and events--the deposition and murder of Richard II, the Wars of the Roses, the usurping of the throne by Richard III--but they always affirm the principle that a legitimate king, circumscribed by an agreed constituion, is the only proper guarantee of the nation's liberties. There are many other ways in which Shakespeare's patriotism has become definitive. In Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech to the troops before Agincourt, for example, or John of gaunt's 'scepter'd isle' speech, a sense of Englishness is expressed which still lives in English minds today. The E;izabethan's pride in nationhood was perfectly embodied by Shakespeare, but the poetry of it transcends its own time. In this edition the history plays are brought together with a large group of illustrations which echo and amplify their themes. Gloriously vivid images of England's story are presented here, putting the great plays in a magnificent setting.