{"product_id":"perspective-in-shakespeares-english-histories-larry-s-champion-9780820338460","title":"Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories","description":"Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play--one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after \u003ci\u003eRichard II\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In \u003ci\u003eKing John\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHenry IV\u003c\/i\u003e, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of \u003ci\u003eHenry VI\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing central figure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e as the culmination of Shakespeare's efforts in the English history play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry S. Champion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082033846X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Larry S. Champion","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435704692991,"sku":"9780820338460","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c12d45c3-7d5c-4677-839f-c999598f5029.jpg?v=1777152149","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perspective-in-shakespeares-english-histories-larry-s-champion-9780820338460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}