[PDF] The History Plays eBook

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : 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
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,18 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : 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
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : 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 : James Goldman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2004-12-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0812973356

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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 : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2001-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0743200314

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Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780415353144

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Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642.

Author : Sarah J. Glassock
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780590599313

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Contains scripts for ten plays on different aspects of American history plus follow-up teaching activities.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 987 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1466884363

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It is part of Shakespeare's extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king's absolute power was first limited and the people's freedoms assured, to--almost in his own lifetime--Henry VIII, Shakespeare wrote a series of ten plays portraying the course of history. It represents almost one third of his entire dramatic output. The overarching theme of these plays is the vital importance of the sovereign's legitimacy if the nation is to be stable. They cover revolutionary times and events--the deposition and murder of Richard II, the Wars of the Roses, the usurping of the throne by Richard III--but they always affirm the principle that a legitimate king, circumscribed by an agreed constituion, is the only proper guarantee of the nation's liberties. There are many other ways in which Shakespeare's patriotism has become definitive. In Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech to the troops before Agincourt, for example, or John of gaunt's 'scepter'd isle' speech, a sense of Englishness is expressed which still lives in English minds today. The E;izabethan's pride in nationhood was perfectly embodied by Shakespeare, but the poetry of it transcends its own time. In this edition the history plays are brought together with a large group of illustrations which echo and amplify their themes. Gloriously vivid images of England's story are presented here, putting the great plays in a magnificent setting.

Author : Peter Davison
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141961414

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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.