Historical Plays

Author : Niloufer Harben
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0389207349

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Twentieth-century English History Plays by Niloufer Harben Pdf

The book offers the clearest definition yet of the history play, its scope and its limits. Historical drama is an extremely popular genre among 20th-century English playwrights. Yet the sheer size and complexity of the subject has, until now, prevented critics from attempting a clear definition. Dr. Harben provides a new and original perspective, taking into account modern ideas of and attitudes to history. The author examines the varying approaches to history taken by modern historians and playwrights, and provides a detailed analysis of the historical source material of selected plays. The study is supported with a wealth of vivid and provocative illustrations. Historical and dramatic criticism is related to theatrical interpretation and experience. This book therefore should prove valuable and interesting to the reader with a specialist interest in the field as well as to the more general reader.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02309402P

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Historical plays by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082518336

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Shakspeare's Historical Plays by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Tanika Gupta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786825469

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Tanika Gupta: Historical Plays by Tanika Gupta Pdf

Four ground-breaking plays that explore the complex relationship between England and India over more than a century, weaving together personal and political narratives. The Waiting Room: Priya Banerjee is dead, but her life is far from over. She has just three days left to roam the earth before she can go on to the 'Waiting Room' of spirits. As she reluctantly watches and listens to her family, Priya is guided by a droll and increasingly impatient immortal soul in the guise of her Bollywood idol, Dilip Kumar. Great Expectations: Relocating Pip's extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens' most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens' language – a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece. The Empress: It is the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class citizen, the other forges an astonishing entanglement with the ageing Queen who finds herself enchanted by stories of an India she rules but has never seen. Lions and Tigers: Based on the true story of Tanika Gupta's great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, the play charts the Dinesh's emotional and political awakening as this extraordinary 19-year-old pits himself against the British Raj. Winner of the James Tait Black Award in 2018.

Author : Thomas-Peregrine Courtenay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z177103205

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Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakespeare by Thomas-Peregrine Courtenay Pdf

Author : Thomas Peregrine Courtenay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Historical drama, English
ISBN : BSB:BSB10749967

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Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:P103042311001

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Historical Plays: Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. King John by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101073393876

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Historical Plays: King Henry VI, pts. 2-3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : James Goldman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812973358

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The Lion in Winter by James Goldman Pdf

Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form. Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line for succession. By imagining the inner lives of Henry, Eleanor, and their sons, John, Geoffrey, and Richard, Goldman created the quintessential drama of family strife and competing ambitions, a work that gives visceral, modern-day relevance to the intrigues of Angevin England. Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today’s theater scene, and Goldman’s screenplay for the 1968 film adaptation won him an Academy Award. Told in “marvelously articulate language, with humor that bristles and burns” (Los Angeles Times), The Lion in Winter is the rare play that bursts into life on the printed page.

Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317050766

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Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays by Kristin M.S. Bezio Pdf

Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the public theaters during the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods (1580-1642). The study examines the way in which the early modern stage presented a critical dialogue concerning the nature of sovereignty through the lens of specifically English history, focusing in particular on the presentation and representation of monarchy. It presents the subgenre of the English history play as a specific reaction to the surrounding political context capable of engaging with and influencing popular and elite conceptions of monarchy and government. This project is the first of its kind to specifically situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context; its purpose is not only to provide an historical timeline of English political theory pertaining to monarchy, but to situate the drama as a significant influence on the production and dissemination thereof during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Some of the plays considered here, notably those by Shakespeare and Marlowe, have been extensively and thoroughly studied. But others-such as Edmund Ironside, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and King John and Matilda-have not previously been the focus of much critical attention.

Author : Hailey Bachrach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009356152

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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays by Hailey Bachrach Pdf

Hailey Bachrach reveals how Shakespeare used female characters in deliberate and consistent ways across his history plays. Illuminating these patterns, she helps us understand these characters not as incidental or marginal presences, but as a key lens through which to understand Shakespeare's process for transforming history into drama. Shakespeare uses female characters to draw deliberate attention to the blurry line between history and fiction onstage, bringing to life the constrained but complex position of women not only in the past itself, but as characters in depictions of said past. In Shakespeare's historical landscape, female characters represent the impossibility of fully recovering voices the record has excluded, and the empowering potential of standing outside history that Shakespeare can only envision by drawing upon the theatre's material conditions. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Caturbhuja
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Hindi drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Great Historical Dramas by Caturbhuja Pdf

Plays about Shivaji, Raja, 1627-1680 and Muhammad Bahadur Shah II, King of Delhi, 1775-1862; translations from Hindi by Kumar Shant Rakshit and Javed Rahman respectively, with critical introduction.

Author : James Redmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521332087

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Themes in Drama: Volume 8, Historical Drama by James Redmond Pdf

Author : Robert B. Pierce
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Domestic drama, English
ISBN : 9780814201527

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Shakespeare's History Plays: the Family and the State by Robert B. Pierce Pdf

Pierce systematically examines the nine history plays of Shakespeare in the 1590s in the approximate sequence of their composition. He discovers in them a constant elaboration and rich development of the correspondence between the family and the state into an ever more subtle and effective dramatic technique. Through a careful analysis of the language, characterization, and plots of the chronicles, Pierce demonstrates how the family served as an analogue of those grave events that marked the turbulent reign of King John and the subsequent terrible century of civil strife and wars with the French that haunted the imaginations of Englishmen more than a hundred years later. At times, he finds, Shakespeare depicts the family as a miniature of the kingdom, and the life of the family becomes a direct or ironic comment on the larger life of the commonwealth. At others, the family is inextricably bound up in a political situation by means of characters who are portrayed both in their public roles and as members of their families.

Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474423540

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Shakespeare's History Plays by Neema Parvini Pdf

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