Shakespeare's history plays have been performed in recent years more than ever before throughout Britain, North America, and Europe. This volume is an accessible introduction to Shakespeare's historical and classical plays. Comprehensive in scope, it offers chapters on the individual plays and accounts of the genre of the history play, Renaissance theories of history, and masques and pageants. It compares them with other European history plays, and includes an account of women's roles, genealogical tables and a list of principal and recurrent characters.
Shakespeare's history plays have been performed in recent years more than ever before throughout Britain, North America, and Europe. This volume is an...
This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.
An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.
Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.
Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.
Writers represented include More, Erasmus,...
This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious w...
