Author: | Nicholas Grene |
Subcategory: | History & Criticism |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (January 7, 2002) |
Pages: | 298 pages |
Category: | Fiction and Literature |
Rating: | 4.3 |
Other formats: | doc lit lrf mobi |
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.
Shakespeare's Serial History Plays book.
Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays .
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.
The book looks at their original creation in the 1590s and at modern serial productions or adaptations, such as the famous Royal Shakespeare . Bibliographic information. Shakespeare's Serial History Plays.
The book looks at their original creation in the 1590s and at modern serial productions or adaptations, such as the famous Royal Shakespeare Company's 1960s Wars of the Roses and others.
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL (born 3 March 1957) is a British novelist and biographer, described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best English novelists of our time". Born in Worcester, England to diplomat John William Richmond Shakespeare and his wife Lalage Ann, daughter of the travel writer and journalist S. P. B. Mais, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America, including Brazil, where his father worked at the British Embassy between 1966 and 1969.
The plays normally referred to as Shakespeare history plays are the ten plays that cover English history from the twelfth .
The plays normally referred to as Shakespeare history plays are the ten plays that cover English history from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. It wasn’t Shakespeare, but Shakespearian scholars, who categorised his plays into the areas of tragedy, comedy and history (as well as ‘problem‘ and ‘Roman‘ and several more). The plays normally referred to as Shakespeare history plays are the ten plays that cover English history from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the 1399-1485 period in particular. Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the staging practices of Shakespeare's time, Grene argues that the history plays were originally designed for serial performance
Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays . Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the staging practices of Shakespeare's time, Grene argues that the history plays were originally designed for serial performance
Book re's Serial History Plays.
Book re's Serial History Plays. Cambridge University Press. A Play in Inverted Commas.