This Guide steers students through four centuries of
critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays, enhancing
their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire.
* * Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on
Shakespeare’s history plays.
* Covers both significant early views and recent critical
interventions.
* Substantial editorial material links the articles and places
them in context.
* Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to
investigate further.
Table des matières
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare’s
Histories:.
2. Genre:.
Overview.
Marjorie Garber, ‘Descanting on Deformity: Richard
III and the Shape of History’.
Paola Pugliatti, ‘Time, Space and the Instability of
History in the Henry IV sequence’.
3. Language:.
Overview.
Harry Berger, ‘Psychoanalysing the Shakespeare text: The
first three scenes of the Henriad’.
Sandra Fischer, ‘He Means to Pay’: Value and
Metaphor in the Lancastrian Tetralogy.
4. Gender and Sexuality:.
Overview.
Leah Marcus, ‘Elizabeth’.
Jean Howard and Phyllis Rackin, ‘King John’.
5. History and Politics:.
Overview.
Andrew Murphy, ‘Shakespeare’s Irish
History’.
Graham Holderness, ‘What Ish My Nation?’ Shakespeare
and National Identities.
6. Performance:.
Overview.
Margaret Shewring, ‘In the Context of English
History’.
Alan Dessen, ‘Stagecraft and Imagery in
Shakespeare’s Henry VI’.
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000), as well as two other edited volumes in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series: Shakespeare’s Comedies (2004) and Shakespeare’s Tragedies (2004)
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