Author: Henry Halford VaughanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
New Readings and New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies
Author: Henry Halford VaughanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Richard II
Author: Charles ForkerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0485810026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Before 1790, the criticism of Richard II is fragmentary and this volume takes up the major tradition of criticism, including Malone, Lamb, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Chambers, Boas, Brandes, Yeats, Schelling, Swinburne, A.C. Bradley, Saintsbury, and Masefield.
King Richard II
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408143127
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence. Forker places the play in its political context, discussing its relation to competing theories of monarchy, looking at how it faced censorship because of possible comparisons between Richard II and Elizabeth I, and how Bolingbroke's rebellion could be compared to the Essex rising of the time. This edition also reconsiders Shakespeare's use of sources, asking why he chose to emphasise one approach over another. Forker also looks at the play's rich afterlife, and the many interpretations that actors and directors have taken. Finally, the edition looks closely at the aesthetic relationship between language, character, structure and political import.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Shakespeare's Works
Author: William ShakespeareThe Second Part of King Henry VI
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139835165
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries, textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive Introduction. Shakespeare's plays about the reign of King Henry VI were written at the beginning of his career. A recent series of outstanding productions has demonstrated their theatrical vitality, and their sceptical questioning of Elizabethan orthodoxies has been understood through revisionist readings of the history of Shakespeare's own times. The Wars of the Roses haunted the Elizabethans. Among many accounts, Shakespeare's was the most ambitious, dramatically innovative and radical. The Second Part of King Henry VI is concerned with the nature of history, the role of conscience and the relation between law and equity. It contains a complex reading of a popular uprising, led by Jack Cade.
The Cambridge History of English Litterature
Author: Shakespeare's Complete Works
Author: William ShakespeareThe Third Part of King Henry VI
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139835173
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries, textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive Introduction. Shakespeare's plays about the reign of King Henry VI were written at the beginning of his career. A recent series of outstanding productions has demonstrated their theatrical vitality, and their sceptical questioning of Elizabethan orthodoxies has been understood through revisionist readings of the history of Shakespeare's own times. In The Third Part of King Henry VI, Shakespeare extends his essay on monarchical politics by contrasting two kings, the good but ineffective Henry VI with his rival, the sensual and victorious Edward IV. He also shows the perils of aristocratic factionalism in a series of scenes that display the grievous wounds caused by the Wars of the Roses.
King John
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521293871
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A new edition of King John, edited and introduced by L. A. Beaurline.