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Shakespeare's histories and counter-histories

Edited by Dermot Cavanagh, Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Stephen Longstaffe

Shakespeare's histories and counter-histories
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    Book Information

    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 256
    • Price: £19.99
    • Published Date: January 2011

    Description

    Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By exploring the diversity of Shakespeare's engagement with history in all its forms, these contributors open up a range of new interpretive possibilities for understanding the way history 'plays' with the past.

    The book is divided into three sections: Memory and mourning, Counter-histories, Identity and performance. In each section, leading theorists, historicists and performance critics offer fresh perspectives on the key issues that are transforming our understanding of Shakespeare. These include: gender and violence, the mapping of Britain, cultural memory and religion.

    This collection will appeal to all critically engaged readers of Shakespeare. In particular it will command wide-ranging interest from undergraduates, postgraduates, academic researchers and students of early modern theatre, history and culture.

    Contents

    1. Staring at Clio: Artists, histories and counter-histories - Stuart Hampton-Reeves
    MEMORY AND MOURNING
    2. Richard II and the performance of grief - John J. Joughin
    3. History, mourning and memory in Henry V - Dermot Cavanagh
    4. There is a history in all men's lives: Reinventing History in 2 Henry IV - Alison Thorne
    5. Good sometime queen: Richard II and the poetics of queenship - Alison Findlay
    COUNTER-HISTORIES
    6. Strange truths: The Stanleys of Derby on the english renaissance stage - Lisa Hopkins
    7. A sea of troubles: The thought of the outside in Shakespeare's histories - Richard Wilson
    8. The Commons will revolt: Woodstock after the peasants' revolt - Stephen Longstaffe
    9. National history to foreign calamity: A Mirror for Magistrates and early English tragedy - Jessica Winston
    IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE
    10. War-like women: 'Reproofe to these degenerate, effeminate dayes' - Carol Banks
    11. Of tygers' hearts and players' hides - Carol Rutter
    12. Mapping Shakespeare's Britain - Peter Holland
    Afterword - Mots d'escalier: Clio, Eurydice, Orpheus - Graham Holderness

    Editors

    Dermot Cavanagh is Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Stuart Hampton-Reeves is Principal Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Central Lancashire. Stephen Longstaffe is Lecturer in English and Drama at St. Martin's College, Lancaster.

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    Edited by Dermot Cavanagh, Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Stephen Longstaffe

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