Shakespeare's histories and counter-histories / edited by Dermot Cavanagh, Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Stephen Longstaffe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cavanagh, Dermot, 1963- editor.

Hampton-Reeves, Stuart, editor.

Longstaffe, Stephen, other.

Frost, Matthew, other.

Manchester University Press, publisher.

Series:

Manchester Shakespeare collection.

Manchester Shakespeare collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--History.

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By exploring the diversity of Shakespeare's engagement with history in all its forms, these contributors open up a range of new interpretive possibilities for understanding the way history 'plays' with the past.The book is divided into three sections: Memory and mourning, Counter-histories, Identity and performance. In each section, leading theorists, historicists and performance critics offer fresh perspectives on the key issues that are transforming our understanding of Shakespeare. These include: gender and violence, the mapping of Britain, cultural memory and religion.This collection will appeal to all critically engaged readers of Shakespeare. In particular it will command wide-ranging interest from undergraduates, postgraduates, academic researchers and students of early modern theatre, history and culture.

Contents:

1. Staring at Clio: Artists, histories and counter-histories / Stuart Hampton-Reeves

MEMORY AND MOURNING

2. Richard II and the performance of grief / John J. Joughin

3. History, mourning and memory in Henry V / Dermot Cavanagh

4. There is a history in all men's lives: Reinventing History in 2 Henry IV / Alison Thorne

5. Good sometime queen: Richard II and the poetics of queenship / Alison Findlay

COUNTER-HISTORIES

6. Strange truths: The Stanleys of Derby on the english renaissance stage / Lisa Hopkins

7. A sea of troubles: The thought of the outside in Shakespeare's histories / Richard Wilson

8. The Commons will revolt: Woodstock after the peasants' revolt / Stephen Longstaffe

9. National history to foreign calamity: A Mirror for Magistrates and early English tragedy / Jessica Winston

IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE

10. War-like women: 'Reproofe to these degenerate, effeminate dayes' / Carol Banks

11. Of tygers' hearts and players' hides / Carol Rutter

12. Mapping Shakespeare's Britain / Peter Holland

Afterword - Mots d'escalier: Clio, Eurydice, Orpheus / Graham Holderness.

Notes:

In-house editor: Matthew Frost.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

Other Format:

Print version: Cavanagh, Dermot; Hampton-Reeves, Stuart; Longstaffe, Stephen. Shakespeare's histories and counter-histories,

ISBN:

9781526135087

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.