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  1. Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan performance of history
    Author: Walsh, Brian
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    A fresh perspective on the Shakespearean history play, examining the work of the Queen's Men and their influence on Shakespeare more

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    A fresh perspective on the Shakespearean history play, examining the work of the Queen's Men and their influence on Shakespeare

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780521766920; 1282402560; 9781282402560; 9780511657856
    Subjects: English drama; Theater; Historical drama, English; Literature and history
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vi, 239 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1 Dialogues with the dead: history, performance, and Elizabethan theater; History, historical culture, historical consciousness; Petrarch and the Elizabethans; Ideas of history; Reformation, rupture, and the stage; "Lively Bodies": Perspectives on performance, now and then; The Queen's Men: The company and their repertory; Shakespeare and the concept of history; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2 Theatrical time and historical time: the temporality of the past in The Famous Victories of Henry V

    Historical time and theatrical time in sixteenth-century EnglandClowning with history in Shakespeare and the Queen's Men; Much "Ado" about history in The Famous Victories of Henry V; The world of the living and the world of the dead; Notes; Chapter 3 Figuring history: Truth, Poetry, and Report in The True Tragedy of Richard III; Induction to history; Forms of address, forms of history; The figure of Report; Two truths; Coda: Repetition and textual history; Notes; Chapter 4 "Unkind division": the double absence of performing history in 1 Henry VI; Succeeding Henry

    Factionalism and the rhetoric of genealogy"Dead march"; Transfusing history; Notes; Chapter 5 Richard III and Theatrum Historiae; Retailing, registering, performing; Citing up the (theatrical) past; Richard, Richmond, and revenants; Providence and playing; Theatrum historiae; Notes; Chapter 6 Henry V and the extra-theatrical historical imagination; "Like" theater, "like" history: The past as fantasy; Imagining the past from the "scaffold" to "Blackheath" to the "tomb"; Henry's hobbyhorse: Chantries and the tomb of Richard II; Acceptance take; Notes

    Conclusion: traces of Henry/traces of historyBibliography; Index