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Shakespeare's Early History Plays Donald Watson

Shakespeare's Early History Plays By Donald Watson

Shakespeare's Early History Plays by Donald Watson

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This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and King John - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.

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Shakespeare's Early History Plays: Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage by Donald Watson

This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and King John - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.

Table of Contents

Part I Theatre, history, politics: theatrical dimensions of the dramatic text; theatricality and politics; the theatre as an institution. Part 2 Henry VI: spectacles of chaos; from ceremony to practice. Part 3 Henry VI: madness and butchery; savage comedy and the audience's nightmare. Part 4 Henry VI: the law of the scabbard; ritualizing atrocity. Part 5 Richard III: the actor's audience; faction and providence. Part 6 King John: John and The Arts of Fallacy; the political language of excess. Part 7 Paradox, play, politics.

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NLS9781349110377
9781349110377
134911037X
Shakespeare's Early History Plays: Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage by Donald Watson
Donald Watson
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
1990-01-01
177
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