The Histories Of William Shakspere
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Author | : Larry S. Champion |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082033846X |
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 | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1862 |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total 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.
Author | : Paul Collins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-07-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1596911956 |
A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781383009095 |
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 | : Ari Berk |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763647942 |
Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Author | : David Scott Kastan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2001-09-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521786515 |
An account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts into books.
Author | : Peter Davison |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 2007-07-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141961414 |
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 | : Graham Holderness |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780312227135 |
Graham Holderness provides a new treatment of Shakespeare's historical dramas by reviewing past sources in light of modern theory, thus redefining the world about which Shakespeare wrote. He begins with the social and cultural context in which these "historical" plays of chivalric antiquity and masculine virtue were written and suggests that the world depicted in the plays represented a male-dominated aristocracy preoccupied with war and violence. The book reveals antiquity's contradictions in all their glamour and glory, their absurdities and arrogance, and provides alternative contexts for reading Shakespeare's history plays.