King Henry VIII: Third SeriesBloomsbury Academic, 2 de nov. 2000 - 506 pàgines King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal allegiance and represents 'history' as the product of varied and contradictory testimony. McMullan makes a powerful claim for the rehabilitation of Henry VIII, providing the fullest performance history of any edition to date and reading the work not as a marginal 'late' Shakespeare play but as a play which is paradigmatic of the achievement of Renaissance drama as a whole.'This is a staggeringly brilliant, captivating edition that will undoubtedly occasion a huge surge of critical interest in this neglected play. For those of use who have never taken Henry VIII very seriously ' perhaps dismissing it as a late collaborative play of no consequence or as conservative propaganda ' McMullan's introduction is genuinely revelatory.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey |
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... critics have felt to be particularly ( even embarrassingly ) lacking in Henry VIII , with its episodic structure and its lack of a single , obvious central character . Moreover , the kind of topical engagement that critics began to ...
... critics have felt to be particularly ( even embarrassingly ) lacking in Henry VIII , with its episodic structure and its lack of a single , obvious central character . Moreover , the kind of topical engagement that critics began to ...
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... critics , unsure how to locate them in an era in which , as I have sug- gested , exclusive categorization has been ... criticism to see the interrela- tions of these four plays more clearly , and probably served to disarm the most ...
... critics , unsure how to locate them in an era in which , as I have sug- gested , exclusive categorization has been ... criticism to see the interrela- tions of these four plays more clearly , and probably served to disarm the most ...
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... critics in the mid - twentieth century , all of whom held a high opinion of the play , provided eloquent resistance ... critic who attempts to use these tests ' , Fleay observed , ' is to have a thorough training in the Naturall Sciences ...
... critics in the mid - twentieth century , all of whom held a high opinion of the play , provided eloquent resistance ... critic who attempts to use these tests ' , Fleay observed , ' is to have a thorough training in the Naturall Sciences ...
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