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Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan performance of history /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan performance of history // Brian Walsh.
remainder title:	Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, & the Elizabethan Performance of History
Author:	Walsh, Brian,
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Historical drama, English - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511657498
ISBN:	9780511657498 (ebook)

Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan performance of history /
Walsh, Brian,

Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan performance of history /Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, & the Elizabethan Performance of HistoryBrian Walsh. - 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction; 1. Dialogues with the dead: history, performance, and Elizabethan theater; 2. Theatrical time and historical time: the temporality of the past in The Famous Victories of Henry V; 3. Figuring history: truth, poetry, and report in The True Tragedy of Richard III; 4. 'Unkind division': the double absence of performing history in 1 Henry VI; 5. Richard III and Theatrum Historiae; 6. Henry V and the extra-theatrical historical imagination; Conclusion: traces of Henry/traces of history.

The Elizabethan history play was one of the most prevalent dramatic genres of the 1590s, and so was a major contribution to Elizabethan historical culture. The genre has been well served by critical studies that emphasize politics and ideology; however, there has been less interest in the way history is interrogated as an idea in these plays. Drawing in period-sensitive ways on the field of contemporary performance theory, this book looks at the Shakespearean history play from a fresh angle, by first analyzing the foundational work of the Queen's Men, the playing company that invented the popular history play. Through innovative readings of their plays including The Famous Victories of Henry V before moving on to Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry V, this book investigates how the Queen's Men's self-consciousness about performance helped to shape Shakespeare's dramatic and historical imagination.

ISBN: 9780511657498 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

801322
Shakespeare, William,
1564-1616--Literary style.Subjects--Corporate Names:

1445985
Queen's Men (Theater company)
--History.Subjects--Topical Terms:

801074
Historical drama, English
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PR635.H5 / W35 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.05140903

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