Screen LibraryA companion to Shakespeare's works. Volume 2, Histories
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Ze...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996546 |
| Summary: |
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (1 volume). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
1417536403 9781417536405 9780470996546 0470996544 |
| Index Number: | PR2976 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Contents: |
The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England / Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History / Censorship and the Problems With History in Shakespeare's England / Nation Formation and the English History Plays / The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare's English Histories / Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare's England / "To Beguile the Time, Look Like the Time": Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare's Histories / The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? / Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare's Histories / Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare's History Plays / French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare's History Plays / The First Tetralogy in Performance / The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation / 1 Henry VI / Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI / Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI / "The Power of Hope?" An Early Modern Reader of Richard III / King John / The King's Melting Body: Richard II / 1 Henry IV / Henry IV, Part 2 / Henry V / |