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Author Ribner., Irving

Title The English History Play in the age of Shakespeare
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (371 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Preface to First Edition; 1 History and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare; 2 The Emergence of a Dramatic Genre; 3 Some Early English History Plays; 4 The Early Shakespeare; 5 Historical Tragedy and Moral History; 6 Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy; 7 The Biographical Play; 8 Legendary and Anglo-Saxon History; 9 The History Play in Decline; APPENDICES; A Note on Tudor Political Doctrine; B A Chronological List of Extant English History Plays, 1519-1653
C The Principal Sources of the English History PlayD A Select Bibliography of Secondary Materials; Subject Index
Summary First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965. Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642 and relates this development to Renaissance historiography and Elizabethan political theory
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Histories.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Historical drama, English -- History and criticism
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Chronicle plays of William Shakespeare
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Historical drama, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136566851
1136566856