Originally published in 1988. Arranged by play, the essays presented here focus first on production and then on a range of other issues such as characters, imagery, textual problems and themes. Both plays were more popular in earlier centuries and...
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Originally published in 1988. Arranged by play, the essays presented here focus first on production and then on a range of other issues such as characters, imagery, textual problems and themes. Both plays were more popular in earlier centuries and most later essayists focused on small issues rather than view the plays in wider perspective. More recent pieces included here seek organising principles for King John and look in more detail at Henry VIII. Beginning with the in-depth introduction by the editor, this collection shows the reception of the play by its Elizabethan audience compared to t
Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part I: King John; From Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq; From A View of the English Stage; or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms; From Shakespeare's Histories; King John and the Drama of History; From The Dramatic Censor or Critical Companion; From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays; From Shakespeare's History Plays; From Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us
The Road to Swinstead Abbey: A Study of the Sense and Structure of King JohnCommodity and Honour in King John; From The Cease of Majesty; Introduction to The New Penguin Shakespeare: King John; Part II: Henry VIII; From The Boston Evening Transcript, January 9, 1894. Tremont Theatre: Henry VIII; From The Advertiser, January 9, 1894. Mr. Irving Opens the Week at the Tremont; From The Boston Traveller, January 10, 1894. Irving's King Henry VIII, A Production Notable from Every Standpoint; A Stratford Production: Henry VIII; From ""Dramatic Intention and Theatrical Realization""
On the Several Shares of Shakespeare and Fletcher in the Play of Henry VIIIThe Authorship of Henry the Eighth; From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays; From Characteristics of Women, Moral, Political, and Historical; The Wheel of Fortune and the Maiden Phoenix of Shakespeare's King Henry the Eighth; From Two Shakespearian Sequences: Henry VI to Richard II and Pericles to Timon of Athens; From Unconformities in Shakespeare's History Plays; Bibliography
