Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's HistoriesColumbia University Press, 1993 - 224 sider In a series of readings, the author examines Shakespeare's five major history plays and accounts for their continued popularity, both in film and on stage. He examines the historical context out of which the plays emerged, and describes how the period gave birth to a modern form of politics. |
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PRELIMINARIES | 1 |
THE PROBLEM OF THE MODERN AGE | 25 |
RICHARD II | 69 |
HENRY IV PARTS 1 AND 2 | 115 |
HENRY V | 167 |
EPILOGUE | 188 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
action aesthetic object affirmative literature ambivalence archaic audience Battle of Shrewsbury becomes Bolingbroke bring century characters concept Consequently contemporary context criticism DAVID HENRY WILSON depiction drama Eastcheap Elizabethan England entails existing fact fall pattern Falstaff Falstaff's world feudal function future genesis guidelines Hal's Hans Blumenberg Henry Henry IV historical events historiography Hotspur ideal interpretation King King's language legitimacy legitimation literary London longer means meant medieval metaphor Middle Ages Mirror Mirror for Magistrates modern age monumental history moral orientation past person perspective political Polydore Polydore Vergil position possible present Prince Hal problem reality Renaissance repertoire represented reveals Richard Richard II rise and fall role role-playing ruler scene schemata self-assertion Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's Histories Shakespeare's plays shows situations social speare speare's spectator strategies structure subversion success tetralogy throne tion traditional Tudor Myth turn validity Wolfgang Iser world picture