Shakespeare's Histories and Counter-Histories

Herausgeber: Cavanagh, Dermot; Longstaffe, Stephen; Hampton-Reeves, Stuart

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780719070747
• ISBN-10: 0719070740
• Artikelnr.: 22708822

Autorenporträt

Dermot Cavanagh is Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Stuart Hampton-Reeves is Principal Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Central Lancashire Stephen Longstaffe is Lecturer in English and Drama at St. Martin's College, Lancaster

Inhaltsangabe

1. Staring at Clio: Artists, histories and counter
histories
Stuart Hampton
Reeves MEMORY AND MOURNING 2. Richard II and the performance of grief
John J. Joughin 3. History, mourning and memory in Henry V
Dermot Cavanagh 4. There is a history in all men's lives: Reinventing History in 2 Henry IV
Alison Thorne 5. Good sometime queen: Richard II and the poetics of queenship
Alison Findlay COUNTER
HISTORIES 6. Strange truths: The Stanleys of Derby on the english renaissance stage
Lisa Hopkins 7. A sea of troubles: The thought of the outside in Shakespeare's histories
Richard Wilson 8. The Commons will revolt: Woodstock after the peasants' revolt
Stephen Longstaffe 9. National history to foreign calamity: A Mirror for Magistrates and early English tragedy
Jessica Winston IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE 10. War
like women: 'Reproofe to these degenerate, effeminate dayes'
Carol Banks 11. Of tygers' hearts and players' hides
Carol Rutter 12. Mapping Shakespeare's Britain
Peter Holland Afterword
Mots d'escalier: Clio, Eurydice, Orpheus
Graham Holderness