Shakespeare Survey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 31, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521320269
Subjects: Literary studies: general; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: When Harold Jenkins wrote his survey of criticism of the English history plays from 1900 to 1951 for Shakespeare Survey 6 (Cambridge, 1953) two critical approaches were dominant: firstly the reading of them in the light of the historical thesis which they were seen to present and which was particularly associated with E. M. W. Tillyard's Shakespeare's English History Plays (1944), and secondly close analysis of their style and imagery.