A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: The Histories Hardcover - 2003
by Richard Dutton (Editor); Jean E. Howard (Editor)
First line
More than seventy historical dramas were written in England between the middle of the sixteenth century and the Revolution, the greater number of them seeing the light of day during the closing decade and a half of Elizabeth's reign.
From the rear cover
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.
Complementing David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context, these volumes examine each of his plays and major poems using all the resources of contemporary criticism from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analyses.
Scholars from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States - have joined in the writing of new essays addressing virtually the whole of Shakespeare's canon from a rich variety of critical perspectives. A mixture of younger and more established scholars, their work reflects some of the most interesting research currently being conducted in Shakespeare studies.
Arguing for the persistence and utility of genre as a rubric for teaching and writing about Shakespeare's works, the editors have organized the four volumes in relation to generic categories: namely, the tragedies, the histories, the comedies, and the poems, problem comedies and late plays. Each volume thus contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.
This ambitious project offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twentieth-first century.
This companion to Shakespeare's histories contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories.
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- Title A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: The Histories
- Author Richard Dutton (Editor); Jean E. Howard (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition New Ed
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date May 1, 2003
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780631226338 / 0631226338
- Weight 2.3 lbs (1.04 kg)
- Dimensions 9.92 x 7.12 x 1.66 in (25.20 x 18.08 x 4.22 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Shakespeare, William - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002074602
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.33
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Citations
- Library Journal, 09/15/2003, Page 0
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