Shakespeare Survey
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521523769
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Plays / Drama; Drama; English; Plays; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / British & Irish; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare
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.