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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Pàgina 44
... suggests that , in this particular production , ' [ m ] ere method won the day and meaning degenerated into nonsense ' ( Cave , 15 , 53 ) . But at least one early report suggests that beside Gray's production ' any other version ' of ...
... suggests that , in this particular production , ' [ m ] ere method won the day and meaning degenerated into nonsense ' ( Cave , 15 , 53 ) . But at least one early report suggests that beside Gray's production ' any other version ' of ...
Pàgina 65
... suggests - noting a series of verbal parallels between contemporary descrip- tions of the occasion and the Folio stage directions , and emphasizing the deliberate comparisons drawn between Queen Elizabeth and her young royal namesake in ...
... suggests - noting a series of verbal parallels between contemporary descrip- tions of the occasion and the Folio stage directions , and emphasizing the deliberate comparisons drawn between Queen Elizabeth and her young royal namesake in ...
Pàgina 110
... suggests an affinity with Shakespeare's ' late plays ' or ' romances ' which is difficult to deny , and some critics have attempted to make sense of the generic inconvenience of Henry VIII and its belatedness as a ' history play ' by ...
... suggests an affinity with Shakespeare's ' late plays ' or ' romances ' which is difficult to deny , and some critics have attempted to make sense of the generic inconvenience of Henry VIII and its belatedness as a ' history play ' by ...
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