A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II: The HistoriesRichard Dutton, Jean E. Howard This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.
This companion to Shakespeare's histories contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories. |
Contents
Nation Formation and the English History Plays | 70 |
The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeares English Histories | 94 |
Theories of Kingship in Shakespeares England | 125 |
Contemporary Film | 146 |
A True Genre? | 170 |
Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeares Histories | 194 |
French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeares | 246 |
The First Tetralogy in Performance | 263 |
Disordered Relations in Shakespeares | 325 |
Family State and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI | 344 |
The power of hope? An Early Modern Reader of Richard III | 361 |
King John | 379 |
Richard II | 395 |
A Critical History | 432 |
Henry V | 451 |
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