Campbell Shakespeare's History

Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy.
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-56629-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964.

Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied as a genre separate from tragedy and comedy. Just as there is in Shakespearean tragedies a dominant ethical pattern of passion opposed to reason, so there is in the history plays a dominant political pattern characteristic of the political philosophy of the age. From the 'troublesome reign' of King John to the 'tragical doings' of Richard III, Shakespeare wove the events of English history into plots of universal interest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Lily B

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1

1. The point of view

2. What are "histories"?

3. The humanistic revival of history

4. Classical rhetoric and history

5. Renaissance conceptions of history

6. History and the reformation

7. The influence of continental theories in England

8. English history in the sexteenth century

9. History versus poetry in renaissance England

10. Poetical mirrors of History

Part 2

11. Shakespeare's history plays

12. The troublesome reign of King John

13. An introduction into the division between Lancaster and York

14. The unquiet time of Henry IV

15. The victorious acts of King Henry V

The Tragical doings of King Richard III