The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2002-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521775397 |
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.
Stages of History
Title | Stages of History PDF eBook |
Author | Phyllis Rackin |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 150172472X |
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.
Shakespeare's First Folio
Title | Shakespeare's First Folio PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Smith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191069280 |
This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of its place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognise Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's History Plays
Title | Shakespeare's History Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Neema Parvini |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-11-01 |
Genre | LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | 147442354X |
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
Shakespeare's Problem Plays
Title | Shakespeare's Problem Plays PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1627932534 |
A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Sixth ...
Title | Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Sixth ... PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1882 |
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Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth
Title | Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1880 |
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