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Title: SHAKESPEARE'S HISTORY PLAYS
By: Robert Watt
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0582418313
ISBN 13: 9780582418318
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 10 January, 2003
Series: Longman Critical Readers
Pages: 256
Description: A critical anthology of some important studies by those critics who have influenced textual studies of Shakespeare's history plays. These essays reclaim the plays for feminism and give insights into the invention of Britain itself.
Synopsis: Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays. The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Longman
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