A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II The Histories

by Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E.

• ISBN13: 9781405136068
• ISBN10: 1405136065
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

Author Biography

Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (1997).

Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(3)
The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England	4	(22)
Ivo Kamps
Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History	26	(22)
Richard Helgerson
Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeare's England	48	(22)
Cyndia Susan Clegg
Nation Formation and the English History Plays	70	(24)
Patricia A. Cahill
The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare's English Histories	94	(31)
Willy Maley
Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare's England	125	(21)
William C. Carroll
``To beguile the time, look like the time'': Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare's Histories	146	(24)
Peter J. Smith
The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre?	170	(24)
Paulina Kewes
Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare's Histories	194	(26)
James Holstun
Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare's History Plays	220	(26)
Rebecca Ann Bach
French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare's History Plays	246	(17)
Linda Gregerson
The First Tetralogy in Performance	263	(24)
Ric Knowles
The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation	287	(21)
Lois Potter
1 Henry VI	308	(17)
David Bevington
Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI	325	(19)
Thomas Cartelli
Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI	344	(17)
Kathryn Schwarz
``The power of hope?'' An Early Modern Reader of Richard III	361	(18)
James Siemon
King John	379	(16)
Virginia Mason Vaughan
The King's Melting Body: Richard II	395	(17)
Lisa Hopkins
1 Henry IV	412	(20)
James Knowles
Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History	432	(19)
Jonathan Crewe
Henry V	451	(17)
Andrew Hadfield
Index	468