Richard II / edited by Charles R. Forker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forker, Charles R.

Series:

Shakespeare, the critical tradition.

Shakespeare, the critical tradition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kings and rulers in literature.

Middle Ages in literature.

Great Britain--In literature.

Great Britain.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Richard II.

Shakespeare, William.

Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400--In literature.

Richard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (612 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Richard the Second

Place of Publication:

London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Athlone Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Before 1790, the criticism of Richard II is fragmentary and this volume takes up the major tradition of criticism, including Malone, Lamb, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Chambers, Boas, Brandes, Yeats, Schelling, Swinburne, A.C. Bradley, Saintsbury, and Masefield.

Contents:

CONTENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 EDWARD CAPELL, various notes on Richard II, 1780; 2 EDMOND MALONE and others, supplementary remarks on Richard II, 1780; 3 THOMAS DAVIES, on the deposition scene in Richard II, 1784; 4 EDMOND MALONE, edition of Shakespeare, 1790; 5 JOSEPH RITSON, Shakespeare's part-authorship of Richard II and other notes, 1793; 6 GEORGE STEEVENS, notes on Richard II, 1793; 7 GEORGE CHALMERS, on the date and political significance of Richard II, 1799; 8 CHARLES DIBDIN, Richard II inferior to Richard III, 1800

9 FRANCIS DOUCE, Richard II and the memento mori tradition, 180710 CHARLES LAMB, Marlowe's Edward II compared to Richard II, 1808; 11 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, on Richard II and the history play, 1813; 12 WILLIAM HAZLITT, a critique of Edmund Kean as Richard II, 1815; 13 RICHARD WROUGHTON, advertisement of an adaptation of Richard II, 1815; 14 A.W. VON SCHLEGEL, Richard II and the unity of Shakespeare's history plays, 1815; 15 NATHAN DRAKE, a sympathetic view of Richard II, 1817; 16 WILLIAM HAZLITT, characterization in Richard II, 1817

17 JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS, the poetry of Richard II and the other histories, 181718 AUGUSTINE SKOTTOWE, Richard II and the truth of history, 1824; 19 GEORGE DANIEL, prefatory remarks on Richard II, 1831; 20 HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, another version of Coleridge on Richard II, 1836; 21 HENRY HALLAM, on the scene of Aumerle's pardon in Richard II, 1837-9; 22 THOMAS CAMPBELL, general comments on Richard II, 1838; 23 THOMAS PEREGRINE COURTENAY, Richard II and history, 1838; 24 CHARLES KNIGHT, the pictorial edition of Richard II, 1838

25 JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, on the existence of two plays on Richard II's reign, 184226 HERMANN ULRICI, kingship and the morality of Richard II, 1846; 27 GULIAN C. VERPLANCK, critical remarks on Richard II, 1847; 28 HARTLEY COLERIDGE, a comment on Richard II, 1851; 29 FRANÇOIS P.G. GUIZOT, history, character, and divine right in Richard II, 1852; 30 HENRY N. HUDSON, historical truth and characterization in Richard II, 1852; 31 HENRY REED, history as tragedy in Richard II, 1855; 32 WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD, the political morality of Richard II, 1856

33 RICHARD GRANT WHITE, Richard II, Daniel's Civil Wars, and the play's date, 185934 G.G. GERVINUS, the characterization and artistry of Richard II, 1863; 35 JOHN A. HERAUD, the play's divided authorship and Shakespeare's attitude to divine right, 1865; 36 HENRY N. HUDSON, further observations on Richard II, 1872; 37 RICHARD SIMPSON, Richard II and Elizabethan politics, 1874; 38 EDWARD DOWDEN, the immaturity of Richard II and the realism of Bolingbroke, 1875; 39 A.C. SWINBURNE, an unsympathetic view of Richard II, 1875

40 F.J. FURNIVALL, the topicality of Richard II and the character of its protagonist, 1877

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-551) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-45270-3

1-4411-3913-3

9786612452703

1-281-29181-1

9786611291815

1-84714-074-2

OCLC:

609838539