William Shakespeare. Histories / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Histories.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Historical drama, English--History and criticism.

Historical drama, English.

Physical Description:

vii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Other Title:

Histories

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2009]

Summary:

William Shakespeare turned to his nation's history as a source and inspiration for many of his plays. In his series of vibrantly realized history plays, including Richard II, Richard III, Henry V, and Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Shakespeare balanced the pageantry and conflict of the political realm with incisive explorations of the individual's relationship to power and moral responsibility. Renowned scholar Harold Bloom introduces this new selection of full-length critical essays on these legendary royals, humanized and universalized in Shakespeare's enduring works.

The Bloom's Modern Critical Views series presents critical portraits of the writers that are most widely read and studied in high schools and colleges. Each volume opens with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom in which he offers his insights into the author's work and an editor's note that comments on the individual analyses that follow. Also included are bibliographic references, notes on the various contributors, and a useful chronology of the writer's life. Bloom's Modern Critical Views is a critical presentation of those men and women who, from ancient times to the present, have shaped the Western literary tradition.

Contents:

The Bolingbroke plays (Richard II, Henry IV) / Northrop Frye

Prophetic behavior in Shakespeare's histories / Kirby Farrell

Structural pattern in Shakespeare's histories / Sherman Hawkins

King John / Maurice Charney

Sitting upon the ground (Richard II, IV, i) / Harry Levin

The death of John Talbot / Alexander Leggatt

Food for words: Hotspur and the discourse of honor / Harry Berger, Jr.

The major histories / A.D. Nuttall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781604136388

1604136383

OCLC:

290487424