Shakespeare's Histories : A Guide to Criticism

by Smith, Emma

• ISBN13: 9780631220084
• ISBN10: 0631220089
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's history plays. Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions. Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context. Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

Author Biography

Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000), as well as two other edited volumes in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series: Shakespeare's Comedies (2004) and Shakespeare's Tragedies (2004)

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
1 The Development of Criticism of Shakespeare's Histories	1	(33)
2 Genre	34	(63)
Richard III and the Shape of History
Marjorie Garber	42	(24)
The Instability of History in the Henry IV Sequence
Paola Pugliatti	66	(31)
3 Language	97	(46)
Psychoanalysing the Shakespeare Text
Harry Berger	103	(20)
Value and Metaphor in the Lancastrian Tetralogy
Sandra K. Fischer	123	(20)
4 Gender and Sexuality	143	(53)
Elizabeth
Leah S. Marcus	147	(35)
King John
Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin	182	(14)
5 History and Politics	196	(50)
Shakespeare's Irish History
Andrew Murphy	203	(22)
Shakespeare and National Identities
Graham Holderness	225	(21)
6 Performance	246	(26)
In the Context of English History
Margaret Shewring	253
Stagecraft and Imagery in Shakespeare's Henry VI
Alan C. Dessen	272	(17)
Index	289