The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521775397)

Shakespeare's history plays have been performed in recent years more than ever before throughout Britain, North America, and Europe. This volume is an accessible introduction to Shakespeare's historical and classical plays. Comprehensive in scope, it offers chapters on the individual plays and accounts of the genre of the history play, Renaissance theories of history, and masques and pageants. It compares them with other European history plays, and includes an account of women's roles, genealogical tables and a list of principal and recurrent characters.

Author: Michael Hattaway
ISBN-10: 0521775396
ISBN-13: 9780521775397
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2002
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.94w x 0.77d