Matthew Woodcock

Shakespeare

Henry V
Herausgeber: Tredell, Nicolas

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Produktbeschreibung

Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide summarises and assesses key interpretations, setting them in their intellectual and historical context.

Produktdetails

• Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780230500808
• ISBN-10: 0230500803
• Artikelnr.: 24437628

Autorenporträt

Matthew Woodcock is Research and Impact Support Officer, School of English, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.- Notes on the Texts.- Introduction.- Making the Text: Date, Sources, Textual History.- The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Neoclassicism and Early Editions.- The Nineteenth-Century: Romantic and Victorian Interpretations.- The Early Twentieth-Century: What Makes a Good King?.- The Mid-Twentieth-Century: History, War and Epic.- The Mid to Late Twentieth Century: Ambivalence and Play.- The Later Twentieth Century and Beyond: Power, Subversion and Masculinity.- A Play for the New Millennium: Nationhood, Memory and Just War.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.