Shakespeares History Plays
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Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2002-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521775397 |
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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 | : Neema Parvini |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 147442354X |
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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 | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1627932534 |
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A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida
Author | : Robert Watt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1317876148 |
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Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays. The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.
Author | : Larry S. Champion |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082033846X |
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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 | : John Julius Norwich |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2001-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743200314 |
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Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.
Author | : Warren Chernaik |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-10-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521855071 |
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An accessible and lively 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's history plays and their tradition on stage and film.
Author | : Tim Spiekerman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001-01-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780791448687 |
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Explores the continuing relevance of important political themes in five of Shakespeare's English History plays.
Author | : Elihu Pearlman |
Publisher | : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Shakespeare is manifest in the continued staging of these history plays, which first came into vogue thanks to the post-Armada nationalism that swept Tudor England. Through historical dramas such as Henry IV and Richard III, Shakespeare addressed the political, social, and religious needs of an entire nation. In William Shakespeare: The History Plays, E. Pearlman provides an indispensable tool for identifying the source of the timeless excitement provided by.
Author | : A. J. Hoenselaars |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-09-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521829021 |
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This volume, with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy, addresses a range of attitudes to Shakespeare's English history plays in Britain and abroad from the early seventeenth century to the present day. It concentrates on the play texts as well as productions, translations and adaptations of them. The essays explore the multiple points of intersection between the English history they recount and the experience of British and other national cultures, establishing the plays as genres not only relevant to the political and cultural history of Britain but also to the history of nearly every nation worldwide. The plays have had a rich international reception tradition but critics and theatre historians abroad, those practising 'foreign' Shakespeare, have tended to ignore these plays in favour of the comedies and tragedies. By presenting the British and foreign Shakespeare traditions side by side, this volume seeks to promote a more finely integrated world Shakespeare.