Tom McAlindon

Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2

A Study of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2

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Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2002: An intensive study of Shakespeare's most ambitious and complex achievement in the historical mode. The book offers an account of the play's critical history from 1700 until the 1980s, deals with the aspects of Tudor history relevant to an understanding, and offers close readings of the text structured around what the author believes to be the play's three dominant concepts: time; truth; and grace. In an attempt to correct what he sees as a certain falsification of critical history, the author aligns his account of the play's reception with one of its major preoccupations - the inescapable and informing presence of the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781138704367
• ISBN-10: 1138704369
• Artikelnr.: 48891560

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Contexts: a critical history - a masterpiece
comic history
structures
19th-century interpretations
20th-century interpretations - conservative Shakespeare
20th-century interpretations - ambivalent Shakespeare; a Tudor history - present and past; rebellion
the colours of rebellion and the problem of truth
rumour's tongues
what is a man but his promise
treachery and distrust
grace and favour. Part 2 Text: time - Tudor time
Henry IV - imagery and design
the King
Esperance ma comforte - the rebels
continual laughter - Falstaff
sunlike majesty - the heir apparent; truth - oaths
perjury and language
royal duplicity - Henry and Prince John
the rebels - divided and dividing
the word of the noble - Sir John Falstaff
knight
true prince or princely hypocrite?; grace - grace and honour
a god on earth - Henry and Prince John
the king of honour - Sir Harry Percy
Sir John - the reforming knight
the ungracious boy
epilogue. Appendices: Twelfth Night and temperate mirth; swearing and forswearing in the histories from Henry VI to Richard.