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Shakespeare's "Histories":

Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy
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Routledge, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 346 pages
First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964.

Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied as a genre separate from tragedy and comedy. Just as there is in Shakespearean tragedies a dominant ethical pattern of passion opposed to reason, so there is in the history plays a dominant political pattern characteristic of the political philosophy of the age. From the 'troublesome reign' of King John to the 'tragical doings' of Richard III, Shakespeare wove the events of English history into plots of universal interest.

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JSTOR: Shakespeare's "Histories": Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy.
Shakespeare's "Histories": Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy. Robert B. Heilman. Modern Language Notes, Vol. 63, No. 4, 275-277. Apr., 1948. ...
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Reviews. Despite die purpose of Diircr's drawing, it is an important piece of evidence for. our knowledge of die early printing press and we are very glad ...
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Renaissance Forum: Volume 5, Number 1, 2000: Steve Longstaffe
Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin. 1997. Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories. London & New York: Routledge. 320pp. ...
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Richard III Society: History Play Bibliography
Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy. San Marino: Huntington, 1947; Cochrane, Eric. Historians and Historiography in the Italian ...
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David Daniell and Henry VI
Opening up the text Shakespeare's Henry VI plays in performance. Introduction. The three parts of King Henry VI, though fully present in good texts in the ...
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Startseite Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. This bibliography is based on Elihu Pearlman, William Shakespeare. The History Plays. New York: Twayne, 1992, which is in the ...
rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/ ~lehre1/ ws2000/ elizabethan_history_drama/ bibliography.htm

Reading List - Faculty of Arts at The University of Auckland, New ...
Lily B. Campbell, Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy (1947). John D. Cox, Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power (1989) ...
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Lois Potter - English and American Richards, Edwards, and Henries ...
Lily B. Campbell, Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1947), 294. ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ shakespeare_quarterly/ v055/ 55.4potter.html

SHAKSPER: Submitted Papers
Attached is a paper of mine on 2henryiv that is currently in press at Ohio University Press as part of a two volume festschrift in honor of George Anastaplo ...
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Sport, war, and contest in Shakespeare's Henry VI (*). - Free ...
Free Online Library: Sport, war, and contest in Shakespeare's Henry VI (*). by "Renaissance Quarterly"; Humanities, general Literature, writing, ...
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