Shakespeare’S Histories and Counter-Histories

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvDermot Cavanagh,Stuart Hampton-Reeves,Stephen Longstaffe

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Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By exploring the diversity of Shakespeare’s engagement with history in all its forms, these contributors open up a range of new interpretive possibilities for understanding the way history ‘plays’ with the past.The book is divided into three sections: Memory and mourning, Counter-histories, Identity and performance. In each section, leading theorists, historicists and performance critics offer fresh perspectives on the key issues that are transforming our understanding of Shakespeare. These include: gender and violence, the mapping of Britain, cultural memory and religion.This collection will appeal to all critically engaged readers of Shakespeare. In particular it will command wide-ranging interest from undergraduates, postgraduates, academic researchers and students of early modern theatre, history and culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-11-30
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt512 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719070747

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1. Staring at Clio: Artists, histories and counter-histories - Stuart Hampton-ReevesMEMORY AND MOURNING2. Richard II and the performance of grief - John J. Joughin3. History, mourning and memory in Henry V - Dermot Cavanagh4. There is a history in all men’s lives: Reinventing History in 2 Henry IV - Alison Thorne5. Good sometime queen: Richard II and the poetics of queenship - Alison FindlayCOUNTER-HISTORIES6. Strange truths: The Stanleys of Derby on the english renaissance stage - Lisa Hopkins7. A sea of troubles: The thought of the outside in Shakespeare’s histories - Richard Wilson8. The Commons will revolt: Woodstock after the peasants' revolt - Stephen Longstaffe9. National history to foreign calamity: A Mirror for Magistrates and early English tragedy - Jessica WinstonIDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE10. War-like women: ‘Reproofe to these degenerate, effeminate dayes’ - Carol Banks11. Of tygers’ hearts and players’ hides - Carol Rutter12. Mapping Shakespeare’s Britain - Peter HollandAfterword - Mots d’escalier: Clio, Eurydice, Orpheus - Graham Holderness