Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

Name: Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays
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ISBN: 9780521775397

ISBN-10: 0521775396

ISBN-13: 9780521775397

Edition: 2002

Authors: Michael Hattaway

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Description:

An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays.

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.06" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of figures


List of contributors


List of abbreviations


Chronology



Contexts



The Shakespearean history play




Shakespeare and the early modern history play




Pageants, masques, and history




Elizabethan historiography and Shakespeare's sources




Women's roles in the Elizabethan history plays




The Plays



Plantagenets, Lancastrians, Yorkists, and Tudors: 1-3 Henry VI, Richard III, Edward III




Historical legacy and fiction: the poetical reinvention of King Richard III




King John: changing perspectives




Richard II: Shakespeare and the languages of the stage




Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2




Henry V: 'the quick forge and working house of thought'




Shakespeare's ancient Rome: difference and identity




Shakespeare's other historical plays




Theatrical afterlives




Reference Material


Principal and recurrent characters in the English histories


Genealogical tables



The Early Plantagenets



The House of Lancaster



The House of York


Reading list and references


Index