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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature

Editor: Michael Hattaway, University of Sheffield

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: December 2002
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521775397

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Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 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.
- 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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'Its compendiousness and the high quality of essays dealing with virtually every aspect of Shakespeare and history make it relevant to anyone anywhere interested in Shakespeare's history plays.' Around the Globe

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Product details
- Date Published: December 2002
- 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.
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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.
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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