English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Great Britain Historiography, English Drama - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare -
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Overview
Shakespeare's history plays, with their insistent depictions of leadership and its discontents, have prompted very different critical views over the past four centuries. This book introduces students to the key critical debates under five headings: genre, language, gender and sexuality, history and politics, and performance. The Guide serves both to enhance students' enjoyment of the history plays and to broaden the reader's critical repertoire. By presenting ten recent critical interventions in the field, it provides a compendium of current scholarship. These articles are contextualized with brief critical overviews and annotated suggestions for further reading. An additional narrative chapter on pretwentieth-century criticism excerpts significant views by critics, including Johnson, Hazlitt and Coleridge.Book Details
Published
August 25, 2003
Publisher
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Pages
304
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780631220077