Nicholas Grene

Shakespeare's Serial History Plays

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Produktbeschreibung

A re-reading of the two sequences of Shakespeare's English history plays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521045636
• ISBN-10: 0521045630
• Artikelnr.: 23174270

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Chronology of major serial productions/adaptations
Note on the texts
Introduction: Part I. The Story of the Histories: 1. Serialising the chronicles
2. Staging the national epic
Part II. Henry VI-Richard III: 3. War imagined
4. The emergence of character
5. Curses and prophecies
Part III. Richard II-Henry V: 6. Looking back
7. Hybrid histories
8. Change and identity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.