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Loading... The Complete Plays: The Historiesby William Shakespeare
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Plays Nicely bound, one of three volume set. Note: I haven't read this actual volume; this is a shorthand way of putting them all on my reading-through-history shelf. Four stars because the best - Henry IV, Richard II & III - are the best, while the worst - Henry VIII, most of the Henry VIs - are pretty crap. 1566 This is collection of Shakespeare's history plays, nicely arranged and compiled for easy access. I do not like that there are no annotations or references to help and guide me. no reviews | add a review
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Shakespeare: The Histories brings a completely new approach to Shakespeare's historical dramas. Many previously well-known and influential studies have been governed by Marxist methodologies. This book reviews the plays in the light of modern theory, considering History as re-readings of the past. Both the early modern consciousness of history, obsessed by ghosts and resurrections, and modern preoccupations with language as absence and deferral, provide alternative interpretative contexts for reading Shakespeare's history plays. Holderness concentrates on detailed readings of the plays in the light of these concerns, writing in an accessible way and with an intensified focus on history as writing. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)822.33Literature English & Old English literatures English drama Elizabethan 1558-1625 Shakespeare, William 1564–1616LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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