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Shakespeare the historian / Paola Pugliatti.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2982 .P86 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pugliatti, Paola.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Histories.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Historical drama, English--History and criticism.
- Historical drama, English.
- Great Britain--History--1066-1687--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Kings and rulers in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 265 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a drama which portrayed history as a critical outlook on a world of problems and retrospective possibilities, rather than as unconditional belief in, or even worship of, a world of facts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312128401
- OCLC:
- 32853854
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