Title The end crowns all : closure and contradiction in Shakespeare's history / Barbara Hodgdon

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991] ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (335 pages) : illustrations Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. "Chorus to This History" -- CHAPTER 2. Fashioning Obedience: King John's "True Inheritors" -- CHAPTER 3. Enclosing Contention: 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI -- CHAPTER 4. "The Coming On of Time": Richard III -- CHAPTER 5. "If I Turn Mine Eyes upon Myself": Richard II -- CHAPTER 6. "Let the End Try the Man": 1 and 2 Henry IV -- CHAPTER 7. "A Full and Natural Close, Like Music": Henry V -- CHAPTER 8. Uncommon Women and Others: Henry VIIÌs "Maiden Phoenix" -- CHAPTER 9. "No Epilogue, I Pray You" -- NOTES -- INDEX Summary In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure as a developing process in which narrative structures, generic signs, and rhetorical conventions play contributory, and often contradictory, roles, she also considers how theatrical representations interpret, or reinterpret, closural features to recuperate and redirect their social energies. By giving special emphasis to theatrical reproduction as a form of textuality and to the intertextual relations between drama and other forms of history writing, Hodgdon situates performance as a type of new historicism and shows how theatrical productions, like critical discourse, participate in cultural work. Through a study of playtexts and selected performance texts, she negotiates between the critical and theatrical guises of Shakespeare to assess how past and present-day theatrical practice has appropriated his work to serve particular institutional and social practices. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-296) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Histories. SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject Historical drama, English -- History and criticism Literature and history -- Great Britain Kings and rulers in literature. Contradiction in literature. Closure (Rhetoric) DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Chronicle plays of William Shakespeare Closure (Rhetoric) Contradiction in literature Historical drama, English Historiography Kings and rulers in literature Literature Literature and history SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687 -- Historiography Great Britain -- In literature Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400861767 1400861764 9780691068336 069106833X 0691608806 9780691608808

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