{"product_id":"a-companion-to-shakespeares-works-volume-ii-the-histories-hardback-9780631226338","title":"A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II; The Histories (Hardback) 9780631226338","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume II\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Histories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Dutton (Edited by), R Dutton (Author), Jean E. Howard (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631226338, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 May 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e496 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 1.106 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis four-volume \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Shakespeare's Works,\u003c\/i\u003e compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVolumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis companion to Shakespeare's histories contains original essays on every history play from \u003ci\u003eHenry VI\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Writing of History in Shakespeare s England: Ivo Kamps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History: Richard Helgerson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeares England: Cyndia Susan Clegg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Nation Formation and the English History Plays: Patricia A. Cahill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare s English Histories: Willy Maley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare s England: William C. Carroll.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. To beguile the time, Look like the time: Contemporary Film.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVersions of Shakespeare s Histories: Peter J. Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? Paulina Kewes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeares Histories: James Holstun.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare s History Plays: Rebecca Ann Bach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeares: History Plays: Linda Gregerson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The First Tetralogy in Performance: Ric Knowles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation: Lois Potter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. 1 Henry VI: David Bevington.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare’s Henry VI: Thomas Cartelli.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI: Kathryn Schwarz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. The power of hope An Early Modern Reader of Richard III: James Siemon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. King John: Virginia Mason Vaughan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The Kings Melting Body: Richard II: Lisa Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. 1 Henry IV: James Knowles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History: Jonathan Crewe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. 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