Donald Watson

Shakespeare¿s Early History Plays

Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-11037-7
• 1st ed. 1990
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781349110377
• ISBN-10: 134911037X
• Artikelnr.: 44459869

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Theatre, history, politics: theatrical dimensions of the dramatic text; theatricality and politics; the theatre as an institution. Part 2 "Henry VI": spectacles of chaos; from ceremony to "practice". Part 3 "Henry VI": madness and butchery; savage comedy and the audience's nightmare. Part 4 "Henry VI": the law of the scabbard; ritualizing atrocity. Part 5 "Richard III": the actor's audience; faction and providence. Part 6 "King John": John and "The Arts of Fallacy"; the political language of excess. Part 7 Paradox, play, politics.