Shakespeare's Serial History Plays

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Cambridge University Press, 2002 M01 3 - 278 páginas
Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V. Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the staging practices of Shakespeare's time, Grene argues that the history plays were originally designed for serial performance. The book looks both at their original creation in the 1590s and at modern serial productions or adaptations, from famous stagings such as the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1960s Wars of the Roses through to the present day.

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Serialising the chronicles
9
Staging the national epic
33
Henry VI RICHARD III
65
War imagined
67
The emergence of character
98
Curses and prophecies
132
Richard II HENRY V
163
Looking back
165
Hybrid histories
193
Change and identity
220
Conclusion
248
Notes
253
Bibliography
266
Index
272
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Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.

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