Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a King: From Richard II to Henry V

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Humanities-Ebooks, 1972 M01 1 - 162 páginas
Part I examines the context for Shakespeare's history plays, including the a treatment of Elizabethan cosmology and its relevance to political order. Part 2 explores the 'Ricardian' plays, under the following headings: Mirrors of our Fickle State; Hawks and Handsaws: Modes and Genres of the Plays; This Blessed Plot: Husbandry and the Garden; Passing Brave to be a King: Richard II; This Royal Throne of Kings: Henry IV, parts 1 and 2; This Sceptred Isle: Henry V; A Trim Reckoning: Language, Poetics and Rhetoric.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
A The Modeland its Consequences B The New Philosophy 3 Actors on the Scaffold
The RicardianHistory Plays
Husbandryand
Richard
HenryIV parts 1and
HenryV 11 A Trim Reckoning Language Poetics
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Charles Moseley teaches English and Classics in the University of Cambridge, and was formerly Programme Director of the University's International summer Schools in Shakespeare and English Literature. He has written extensively on Shakespeare and mediaeval literature, and is the author of Literature Insights on Richard III, Henry IV, The Tempest and English Renaissance Drama.

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