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The Henry VI plays [electronic resource] / Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Carol Chillington Rutter.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hampton-Reeves, Stuart.
- Series:
- Shakespeare in Performance
- Shakespeare in performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry VI.
- Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471--In literature.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--1950-.
- Kings and rulers in literature.
- Theater--Production and direction--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Great Britain--History--Henry VI, 1422-1461--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare's earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. In a story which stretches over thirty years, Shakespeare dramatizes the fall of the House of Lancaster and creates some of his most compelling characters, among them the Queen Margaret and the wildly ambitious Richard, Duke of Gloucester (the future Richard III). Modern productions have become landmark works that have defined institutions such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the English Shakespeare Company. This book, the first major study of the Henry
- Contents:
- Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION - Henry VI and national culture; 1. Playing Henry VI in the early modern period; 2. Rediscoveries: nation, war and Empire (1899-1953); 3. The Wars of the Roses: the RSC's Henry VI and Edward IV(1963-64); 4. A true trilogy: the RSC's Henry VI(1977-79); 5. Henry VI and the BBC(1960 and 1981-83); 6. English counter-histories:the ESC's House of Lancaster and House of York (1987-89); 7. Acts of war: the RSC's The Plantagenets (1988-90)
- 8. Plundering in front of hell: the RSC's Henry VI - The Battle for the Throne (1994-95)9. Black comedies: the RSC's millennial Henry VI (2000-1); APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84779-373-8
- OCLC:
- 818847453
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