Author: Larry S. Champion
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 082033846X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.
Author: Graham Holderness
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2000-01-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312227135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Graham Holderness provides a new treatment of Shakespeare's historical dramas by reviewing past sources in light of modern theory, thus redefining the world about which Shakespeare wrote. He begins with the social and cultural context in which these "historical" plays of chivalric antiquity and masculine virtue were written and suggests that the world depicted in the plays represented a male-dominated aristocracy preoccupied with war and violence. The book reveals antiquity's contradictions in all their glamour and glory, their absurdities and arrogance, and provides alternative contexts for reading Shakespeare's history plays.
Author: Peter Davison
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007-07-26
Total Pages: 707
ISBN-13: 0141961414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by Bolingbroke to the triumph of heroic kingship in Henry V.
Author: Ari Berk
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 0763647942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-03-13
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0743200314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1627932534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida
Author: Louis B. Wright
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1978-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780918016553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780765116925
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