The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9780415758994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 372 str.

Irving Ribner

Opis

First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965. Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642 and relates this development to Renaissance historiography and Elizabethan political theory.

Spis treści

1. History and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare2. The Emergence of a Dramatic Genre3. Some Early English History Plays4. The Early Shakespeare5. Historical Tragedy and Moral History6. Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy7. The Biographical Play8. Legendary and Anglo-Saxon History9. The History Play in Decline

O autorze

Irving Ribner