Shakespeare's Serial History PlaysCambridge University Press, 2002 M01 3 - 278 pages Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V. Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the staging practices of Shakespeare's time, Grene argues that the history plays were originally designed for serial performance. The book looks both at their original creation in the 1590s and at modern serial productions or adaptations, from famous stagings such as the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1960s Wars of the Roses through to the present day. |
Contents
Serialising the chronicles | 9 |
Staging the national epic | 33 |
Henry VI RICHARD III | 65 |
War imagined | 67 |
The emergence of character | 98 |
Curses and prophecies | 132 |
Richard II HENRY V | 163 |
Looking back | 165 |
Hybrid histories | 193 |
Change and identity | 220 |
Conclusion | 248 |
Notes | 253 |
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