num_pages: 218
description: The notion that "new" worlds of post-revolutionary political realities are inevitably degradations of earlier eras is ubiquitous in English drama of the period, but perhaps most strikingly evident in Shakespeare's Henry V , argues Rebholz (English, Stanford U.). He explores this theme in the play, comparing it with other English history plays written before 1600 and relating it to developments in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean political ideologies of war and government. He also addresses issues of historical causality and attempts to reconcile the longstanding problem of Henry's contending voices (from the work of Norman Rabkin) within a single framework. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Shakespeare's Philosophy of History Revealed in Detailed Analysis of Henry V and Examined in Other History Plays
titlecomplete: Shakespeare's Philosophy of History Revealed in Detailed Analysis of Henry V and Examined in Other History Plays (Studies in Renaissance Literature, V. 25)
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publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr