Shakespeare's History Plays Rethinking Historicism / Neema Parvini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parvini, Neema.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Histories.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press 2012

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approachesThis important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing

Contents:

New historicism

Cultural materialism

An argument against anti-humanism

Solutions

Shakespeare's historical and political thought in context

Personal action and agency in Henry VI

Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-235) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version (hardback):

ISBN:

9781474423540

147442354X

9780748646142

0748646140

OCLC:

795695182

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access