Shakespeare's History Plays

ISBN-13: 9780582418318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 252 str.

Watt, Robert N.

Opis

A critical anthology of some important studies by those critics who have influenced textual studies of Shakespeare's history plays. These essays reclaim the plays for feminism and give insights into the invention of Britain itself.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Topical ideology: Witches, Amazons and Shakespeare's Joan of Arc Gabriele Bernhard Jackson  2. A mingled yarn: Shakespeare and the cloth workers Richard Wilson  3. Descanting on deformity: Richard III and the shape of history Marjorie Garber  4. Stages of history: Ideological conflict, Alternative plots Phyllis Rackin  5. Engendering a nation: Richard II Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin  6. Prince Hal's Falstaff: Positioning psychoanalysis and the female reproductive body Valerie Traub  7. Carnival and history: Henry IV Graham Holderness  8. The future of history: 1 and 2 Henry IV Kiernan Ryan  9. A tale of two branaghs: Henry V, Ideology and the Mekong Agincourt Chris Fitter  10. Back by popular demand: The two versions of Henry V Annabel Patterson  11. 'Wildehirissheman': Colonialist representations in Shakespeare's Henry V David J. Baker  12: History and ideology, masculinity and miscegenation: The instance of Henry V Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore

O autorze

R.J.C. Watt is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee.