Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage

ISBN-13: 9780198119876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 320 str.

From Chronicle to Stage Dominque Goy-Blanquet; Dominque Goy-Blanquet; Dominique Goy-Blanquet

Opis

Like many of his fellow playwrights, Shakespeare turned to national history for inspiration. In this study, Dominique Goy-Blanquet provides a close comparison of the Henry VI plays and Richard III with their sources, demonstrating how Shakespeare was able to meet not only the ideological but also the technical problems of turning history into drama, how by cutting, carving, shaping, and casting his unwieldy material into performable plays, he matured into the most influential dramatist and historian of his time.

Recenzje

In a sea of "Shakespeare" studies, this one offers a more unique perspective, and digs for rarer evidence than most have attempted. Thus, it belongs within at least Interlibrary loan-reach of most casual and academic students of "Shakespeare"

O autorze

Dominique Goy-Blanquet is Professor of Elizabethan Theatre at the University of Picardie. She is a leading French Shakespearean scholar and a regular contributor to the TLS and various French magazines.