Brian Walsh

Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the Shakespearean history play, examining the work of the Queen's Men and their influence on Shakespeare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9781107629066
• ISBN-10: 1107629063
• Artikelnr.: 39359525

Autorenporträt

Brian Walsh is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Dialogues with the dead: history, performance, and Elizabethan theater
2. Theatrical time and historical time: the temporality of the past in The Famous Victories of Henry V
3. Figuring history: truth, poetry, and report in The True Tragedy of Richard III
4. 'Unkind division': the double absence of performing history in 1 Henry VI
5. Richard III and Theatrum Historiae
6. Henry V and the extra-theatrical historical imagination
Conclusion: traces of Henry/traces of history.