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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

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Michael Hattaway, A. J. Hoenselaars, David M. Bergeron, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Phyllis Rackin, Janis Lull, Marie-Hélène Besnault, Michel Bitot, A. J. Piesse, Robyn Bolam, James C. Bulman, Pamela Mason, Robert S. Miola, R. A. Foakes, Stuart Hampton-Reeves
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  • Date Published: January 2003
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521775397

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  • Shakespeare's history plays have been performed in recent years more than ever before throughout Britain, North America, and Europe. This volume is an accessible introduction to Shakespeare's historical and classical plays. Comprehensive in scope, it offers chapters on the individual plays and accounts of the genre of the history play, Renaissance theories of history, and masques and pageants. It compares them with other European history plays, and includes an account of women's roles, genealogical tables and a list of principal and recurrent characters.

    • Chapters devoted to contexts and to individual plays
    • Broad interpretation of history, including Roman plays
    • Attention throughout to performances of the plays (plus illustrations)
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    "This latest Cambridge companion continues the high quality of the 'Cambridge Companions to Literature' series....The essays mix background information essential for beginners with comments on recent scholarly views helpful to experienced readers. The style is accessible and authoritative, and a paperback edition places the volume within the reach of students." Choice

    "Invaluable." Studies in English Literature

    "indeed a solid critical piece" Essays in Theatre Igor Djordjevic, University of Toronto

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    Product details

    • Date Published: January 2003
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521775397
    • length: 304 pages
    • dimensions: 230 x 151 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.48kg
    • contains: 12 b/w illus. 3 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Contexts:
    1. The Shakespearean history play Michael Hattaway
    2. Shakespeare and the early modern history play A. J. Hoenselaars
    3. Pageants, masques, and history David M. Bergeron
    4. Elizabethan historiography and Shakespeare's sources Dominique Goy-Blanquet
    5. Women's roles in the Elizabethan history plays Phyllis Rackin
    Part II. The Plays:
    6. Plantagenets, Yorkists, Lancastrians, and Tudors: Edward III, 1–3 Henry VI, Richard III Janis Lull
    7. Historical legacy and fiction: the poetical reinvention of King Richard III Marie-Hélène Besnault and Michel Bitot
    8. King John: changing perspectives A. J. Piesse
    9. Richard II: Shakespeare and the languages of the stage Robyn Bolam
    10. Henry IV Parts one and two James C. Bulman
    11. King Henry V: 'The quick forge and working house of thought' Pamela Mason
    12. Shakespeare's ancient Rome: difference and identity Robert S. Miola
    13. Shakespeare's other historical plays R. A. Foakes
    14. Theatrical afterlives Stuart Hampton-Reeves
    Part III. Reference Material: Recurrent characters
    Family Trees:
    1. The Early Plantagenets
    2. The House of Lancaster
    3. The House of York
    Bibliography and further reading.

  • Editor

    Michael Hattaway, University of Sheffield
    Michael Hattaway was educated in New Zealand and at Cambridge. He has taught at the Universities of Kent, British Columbia, Massachusetts, and Sheffield. He is the author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982) and Hamlet:The Critics Debate (1987) and is the editor of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000); with A. R. Braunmuller, of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990), and, with Derek Roper and Boika Sokolova, of Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994). For the New Mermaids he has edited Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle, for the New Cambridge Shakespeare 1-3 Henry VI and As You Like It, and for the Revels Series Jonson's The New Inn.

    Contributors

    Michael Hattaway, A. J. Hoenselaars, David M. Bergeron, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Phyllis Rackin, Janis Lull, Marie-Hélène Besnault, Michel Bitot, A. J. Piesse, Robyn Bolam, James C. Bulman, Pamela Mason, Robert S. Miola, R. A. Foakes, Stuart Hampton-Reeves

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