Dutton / Howard A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II

The Histories
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99728-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 496 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiledas a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot ofcurrent Shakespeare criticism.
* * Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and moreestablished scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada,France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the UnitedStates.
* Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems,using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performancestudies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.
* Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namelythe histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the lateplays, problem plays and poems.
* Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in therelevant category, as well as more general essays looking atcritical issues and approaches more widely relevant to thegenre.
* Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at thedawning of the twenty-first century.
This companion to Shakespeare's histories containsoriginal essays on every history play from Henry VI toHenry V as well as fourteen additional articles on suchtopics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relationof Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of theperiod, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics ofShakespeare's history plays, and nation formation inShakespeare's histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutton, Richard

Howard, Jean E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
1. The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England (IvoKamps).
2. Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History (RichardHelgerson).
3. Censorship and the Problems with History inShakespeare's England (Cyndia Susan Clegg).
4. Nation Formation and the English History Plays (Patricia A.Cahill).
5. The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare's EnglishHistories (Willy Maley).
6. Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare's England (WilliamC. Carroll).
7. "To beguile the time, look like the time": Contemporary FilmVersions of Shakespeare's Histories (Peter J. Smith).
8. The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre (PaulinaKewes).
9. Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare'sHistories (James Holstun).
10. Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, andHomoerotics in Shakespeare's History Plays (Rebecca AnnBach).
11. French Marriages and the Protestant Nation inShakespeare's History Plays (Linda Gregerson).
12. The First Tetralogy in Performance (Ric Knowles).
13. The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation (LoisPotter).
14. 1 Henry VI (David Bevington).
15. Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations inShakespeare's 2 Henry VI (Thomas Cartelli).
16. Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in3 Henry VI (Kathryn Schwarz).
17. "The power of hope?" An Early Modern Reader of RichardIII (James Siemon).
18. King John (Virginia Mason Vaughan).
19. The King's Melting Body: Richard II (LisaHopkins).
20. 1 Henry IV (James Knowles).
21. Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History (Jonathan Crewe).
22. Henry V (Andrew Hadfield).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of Englishat Columbia University and a past president of the ShakespeareAssociation of America. She is an editor of The NortonShakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage andSocial Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, withPhyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account ofShakespeare's English Histories (1997).
Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at OhioState University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: theRegulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) andLicensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early ModernEngland:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the PalgraveLiterary Lives series.