Hodgdon The End Crowns All

Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6176-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure as a developing process in which narrative structures, generic signs, and rhetorical conventions play contributory, and often contradictory, roles, she also considers how theatrical representations interpret, or reinterpret, closural features to recuperate and redirect their social energies. By giving special emphasis to theatrical reproduction as a form of textuality and to the intertextual relations between drama and other forms of history writing, Hodgdon situates performance as a type of new historicism and shows how theatrical productions, like critical discourse, participate in cultural work. Through a study of playtexts and selected performance texts, she negotiates between the critical and theatrical guises of Shakespeare to assess how past and present-day theatrical practice has appropriated his work to serve particular institutional and social practices.

Originally published in 1991.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodgdon, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. ix
ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi
PREFACE, pg. xv
CHAPTER 1. "Chorus to This History", pg. 3
CHAPTER 2. Fashioning Obedience: King John's "True Inheritors", pg. 22
CHAPTER 3. Enclosing Contention: 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI, pg. 44
CHAPTER 4. "The Coming On of Time": Richard III, pg. 100
CHAPTER 5. "If I Turn Mine Eyes upon Myself": Richard II, pg. 127
CHAPTER 6. "Let the End Try the Man": 1 and 2 Henry IV, pg. 151
CHAPTER 7. "A Full and Natural Close, Like Music": Henry V, pg. 185
CHAPTER 8. Uncommon Women and Others: Henry VIII`s "Maiden Phoenix", pg. 212
CHAPTER 9. "No Epilogue, I Pray You", pg. 235
NOTES, pg. 239
INDEX, pg. 287