Shakespeare's history plays
Subtitle: performance, translation, and adaptation in Britain and abroad
By: edited by Ton Hoenselaars ; with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy.
Contributors: Hoenselaars, A. J., 1956-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Histories.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations -- History and criticism.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.; Historical drama, English -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- Great Britain.; Kings and rulers in literature.; Middle Ages in literature.; Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687 -- Historiography.
Description: "This volume, with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy, addresses a range of attitudes to Shakespeare's English history plays in Britain and abroad from the early seventeenth century to the present day. It concentrates on the play texts as well as productions, translations and adaptations of them. The essays explore the multiple points of intersection between the English history they recount and the experience of British and other national cultures, establishing the plays as genres not only relevant to the political and cultural history of Britain but also to the history of nearly every nation worldwide."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-274) and index.