Shakespeare's serial history plays
This book provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V, looking both at their original creation in the 1590s and at modern serial productions or adaptations.
XVII, 278 p. ill. 24 cm
9780521773416, 0521773415
1014524604
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronology of major serial productions/adaptations; Note on the texts; Introduction: Part I. The Story of the Histories: 1. Serialising the chronicles; 2. Staging the national epic; Part II. Henry VI-Richard III: 3. War imagined; 4. The emergence of character; 5. Curses and prophecies; Part III. Richard II-Henry V: 6. Looking back; 7. Hybrid histories; 8. Change and identity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.