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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000222552
Author : Larry S. Champion
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820338460
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 : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521775396
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 : H.A. Kelly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592445240
In this fascinating study, Henry Ansgar Kelly examines the treatment of fifteenth-century English history - the period covered in Shakespeare's history plays, from Richard II to the accession of Henry VII - by contemporary chroniclers, by sixteenth-century historians, and by Elizabethan poets, notably Shakespeare. The author reveals the large role that political bias played in the contemporary accounts: favorite sons were endowed with divine support while cosmically base troubles were attributed to the opposition. He shows that instead of the 'Tudor myth' spoken of by present-day scholars there is a Lancaster myth, a York myth, and a somewhat different Tudor myth. Each is heralded by the partisans of these dynasties. The Lancaster myth regards Richard II's overthrow as providentially arranged and Henry IV's reign as a divine favor, continued under Henry V and Henry VI. The York myth considers Henry VI's loss of the reign as a providential restoration of the usurped throne to the lawful heir of Richard II, namely Edward IV. Kelly finds that the real Tudor myth differs importantly from the widely accepted version in that, far from accepting the Yorkist view that the Henries were punished by God, it accepts the legitimacy of the Lancastrian dynasty: it regards Henry VII, the closest surviving Lancastrian heir, as the providential instrument in the defeat of the wicked Yorkist Richard III and the divinely favored bringer of peace to England. The myth was formulated by the historians and poets who wrote immediately after Henry VII's accession to the throne in 1485. The later chroniclers (especially Polydore Vergil, Hall, and Holinshed) incorporated elements of all three myths - Lancaster, York, and Tudor - but for moralistic rather than for political purposes, often with contradictory results. Shakespeare's great contribution, Kelly asserts, was to sort out the partisan layers that had been blended in the recent compilations available to him and to distribute them to approporiate spokesmen - Lancastrian sentiments to Lancastrians, and so on. He thus eliminated all the purportedly objective providential judgments of his sources and presented such judgments as the opinions of the persons voicing them, thereby allowing each play to create its own ethos and mythos and offer its own hypotheses concerning the springs of human and cosmic action.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781627932530
A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida
Author : Jonathan Baldo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136497681
A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare’s later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry V, as England contended with what were perceived to be traumatic breaks in its history and in the fashioning of a sense of nationhood. For plays ostensibly designed to recover the past and make it available to the present, they devote remarkable attention to the ways in which states and individuals alike passively neglect or actively suppress the past and rewrite history. Two broad and related historical developments caused remembering and forgetting to occupy increasingly prominent and equivocal positions in Shakespeare’s history plays: an emergent nationalism and the Protestant Reformation. A growth in England’s sense of national identity, constructed largely in opposition to international Catholicism, caused historical memory to appear a threat as well as a support to the sense of unity. The Reformation caused many Elizabethans to experience a rupture between their present and their Catholic past, a condition that is reflected repeatedly in the history plays, where the desire to forget becomes implicated with traumatic loss. Both of these historical shifts resulted in considerable fluidity and uncertainty in the values attached to historical memory and forgetting. Shakespeare’s histories, in short, become increasingly equivocal about the value of their own acts of recovery and recollection.
Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474423540
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 : C W R D Moseley
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847601056
Part I examines the context for Shakespeare's history plays, including the a treatment of Elizabethan cosmology and its relevance to political order. Part 2 explores the 'Ricardian' plays, under the following headings: Mirrors of our Fickle State; Hawks and Handsaws: Modes and Genres of the Plays; This Blessed Plot: Husbandry and the Garden; Passing Brave to be a King: Richard II; This Royal Throne of Kings: Henry IV, parts 1 and 2; This Sceptred Isle: Henry V; A Trim Reckoning: Language, Poetics and Rhetoric.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1USD
Author : Peter Davison,Stanley Wells,William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141961415
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 : Lily B Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136566295
First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964. Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied as a genre separate from tragedy and comedy. Just as there is in Shakespearean tragedies a dominant ethical pattern of passion opposed to reason, so there is in the history plays a dominant political pattern characteristic of the political philosophy of the age. From the 'troublesome reign' of King John to the 'tragical doings' of Richard III, Shakespeare wove the events of English history into plots of universal interest.
Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1978-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 091801655X
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6GF1
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002462243X
Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743200318
Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.
