Shakespeare's early history plays
Subtitle: from chronicle to stage
By: Dominique Goy-Blanquet.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Historical drama, English -- History and criticism.
Description: "Illuminating and instructive, Shakespeare's Early History Plays not only includes close investigation of the verbal, poetic, and political texture of the plays, but also provides a broad overview of their wider sixteenth-century historiographical contexts, and of their significance to Shakespeare's oeuvre more generally."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-301) and index.