Provides background information to the study of the history plays, surveys Elizabethan attitudes toward history, and discusses each play in detail, exploring their central issues

Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a King (Critical Studies, Penguin)

Literature & Fiction

Moseley, C. W. R. D.

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

<p>This book, first published by Penguin in 1988, provides an excellent introduction to the world and action of Shakespeare's history plays. Part I examines the context for Shakespeare's history plays, including the a treatment of Elizabethan cosmology and its relevance to political order. Part 2 explores the 'Ricardian' plays, under the following headings: Mirrors of our Fickle State; Hawks and Handsaws: Modes and Genres of the Plays; This Blessed Plot: Husbandry and the Garden; Passing Brave to be a King: Richard Ii; This Royal Throne of Kings: Henry Iv, parts 1 and 2; This Sceptred Isle: Henry V; A Trim Reckoning: Language, Poetics and Rhetoric. This title is also available as a searchable ebook from Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk and for libraries from Ebrary, Ebsco and Ingram. "Interesting, articulate and accessible this is a very good introduction. Ideal for anyone seeking an overview of the plays."--by Tom Wright</p>

Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a King

Dramas & Plays

Humanities-Ebooks

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