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Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

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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.

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BrandCambridge University Press
Pub dateDec 5, 2002
ISBN-100521775396
ISBN-139780521775397
Paperback304.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions9 × 0.76 × 6 in
Weight1 lb
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