The English history play in the age of Shakespeare
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The English history play in the age of Shakespeare
（Routledge library editions, . Shakespeare ; 47 . History & politics ; 5）
Routledge, 2005, c1965
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Methuen , 1965
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 History and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare
- Chapter 2 The Emergence of a Dramatic Genre
- Chapter 3 Some Early English History Plays
- Chapter 4 The Early Shakespeare
- Chapter 5 Historical Tragedy and Moral History
- Chapter 6 Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
- Chapter 7 The Biographical Play
- Chapter 8 Legendary and Anglo-Saxon History
- Chapter 9 The History Play in Decline
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