The Cambridge Introduction To Shakespeare S History Plays
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays
Author: Michael Hattaway
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2002-12-05
Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays
Author: Warren Chernaik
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2007-10-25
An accessible and lively 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's history plays and their tradition on stage and film.
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies
Author: Penny Gay
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2008-04-07
Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.