Shakespeare the Historian

ISBN-13: 9780333633298 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 265 str.

Paola Pugliatti; P. Pugliatti

Opis

This enquiry into the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories assumes that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiographical outlook.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - PART 1: HISTORY 'WITH PARTED EYE' - Meaning, the Author and the Reader - The Tudor Historians' Dialogue with the Dead - Perspectivism - The Contribution of the Theatrical Medium - The Fictionalisation of History and the Issue of Verisimilitude - PART 2: CROSS-EXAMINING POLITICAL ISSUES - The Scribbled Form of Authority in King John - Time, Space and the Instability of History in the Henry IV Sequence - The Strange Tongues on Henry V - Jack Cade: An Unpopular Popular Hero - PART 3: THRESHOLDS AND MARGINS - 'Bastards and Else': Less than History - Notes - Index

O autorze

PAOLA PUGLIATTI is Professor of English at the University of Florence. She was previously Chair of English at the University of Pisa, and has taught at Bologna and at the University of Messina. She has written extensively on the metaphysical poets, Shakespeare, Joyce and modernism, the theory of the novel and literary genres. In 1993 she was appointed member of the Advisory Board of the International Shakespeare Association, and has been invited to read papers at several conferences, both in Italy and elsewhere. For the last five years she has been directing a students' theatre group in Florence whose productions include Shakespeare's Henry VIII, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice.