Shakespeare's histories and counter-histories
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, UK, New York, 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 243 pages ; 24 cm
9780719070747, 0719070740
70401957
1. Staring at Clio: Artists, histories and counter-histories - Stuart Hampton-ReevesMEMORY AND MOURNING2. Richard II and the performance of grief - John J. Joughin3. History, mourning and memory in Henry V - Dermot Cavanagh4. There is a history in all men’s lives: Reinventing History in 2 Henry IV - Alison Thorne5. Good sometime queen: Richard II and the poetics of queenship - Alison FindlayCOUNTER-HISTORIES6. Strange truths: The Stanleys of Derby on the english renaissance stage - Lisa Hopkins7. A sea of troubles: The thought of the outside in Shakespeare’s histories - Richard Wilson8. The Commons will revolt: Woodstock after the peasants' revolt - Stephen Longstaffe9. National history to foreign calamity: A Mirror for Magistrates and early English tragedy - Jessica WinstonIDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE10. War-like women: ‘Reproofe to these degenerate, effeminate dayes’ - Carol Banks11. Of tygers’ hearts and players’ hides - Carol Rutter12. Mapping Shakespeare’s Britain - Peter HollandAfterword - Mots d’escalier: Clio, Eurydice, Orpheus - Graham Holderness -- .