Title: Shakespeare the historian
First published: 1996
Description: In Shakespeare the Historian Paola Pugliatti proposes that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to establish a new historiographical outlook.

Through close examination of the playwright's varied methods and writing styles, she argues that Shakespeare achieved a radical multi-perspectivism or polyphony through which he was able to challenge the monologic practice of contemporary historical sources and cross-examine political issues, thus inaugurating a problem-orientated, critical historiography.
Subjects: English Historical drama, Historical drama, English, Histories, Historiography, History, History and criticism, Kings and rulers in literature, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, histories, Historical drama, history and criticism, Great britain, historiography
Places: Great Britain
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: 1066-1687
LC classification: PR2982 .P86 1996