Author: Peter Saccio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019988076X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion. Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.
Shakespeare's English Kings
Author: Peter Saccio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019988076X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion. Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019988076X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion. Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.
English Drama
Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The English Chronicle Play
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The English Chronicle Play
Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama
Author: John Addington Symonds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The drama to 1642
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
Author: Paulina Kewes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199565759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 811
Book Description
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199565759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 811
Book Description
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
A Brief History of the English Drama
Author: William Echard Golden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Representative English Plays
Author: John Strong Perry Tatlock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Drama Is Her Middle Name
Author: Wendy Williams
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307418944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Shock jock extraordinaire Wendy Williams lets loose with the first in a series of novels based on her alter ego, the divalicious radio DJ Ritz Harper. Ritz puts the s in shock and the g in gossip, and Drama is her middle name. Ritz is a suburban girl on the outside, but inside she’s a hustler’s hustler who’s masterfully maneuvered her way into the spotlight after ruining the career of a well-respected newswoman (and former college friend). Ritz’s “exclusive” rockets her to the top of the ratings, and she’s rewarded with her very own show. Like a talking Venus flytrap, she verbally seduces her on-air guests, only to have them for lunch as she spews gossip about their lives. Ritz becomes the darling of the station’s afternoon slot. But when Ritz goes from drive-time diva to drive-by victim, all she can think as she struggles to maintain consciousness is “Who did this to me?" Has Ritz bad-mouthed the wrong person? Has her signature cat-and-mouse “bomb drop” been dropped on her instead? Readers will salivate as they try to figure out where the fictional Ritz ends and the real-life Wendy begins.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307418944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Shock jock extraordinaire Wendy Williams lets loose with the first in a series of novels based on her alter ego, the divalicious radio DJ Ritz Harper. Ritz puts the s in shock and the g in gossip, and Drama is her middle name. Ritz is a suburban girl on the outside, but inside she’s a hustler’s hustler who’s masterfully maneuvered her way into the spotlight after ruining the career of a well-respected newswoman (and former college friend). Ritz’s “exclusive” rockets her to the top of the ratings, and she’s rewarded with her very own show. Like a talking Venus flytrap, she verbally seduces her on-air guests, only to have them for lunch as she spews gossip about their lives. Ritz becomes the darling of the station’s afternoon slot. But when Ritz goes from drive-time diva to drive-by victim, all she can think as she struggles to maintain consciousness is “Who did this to me?" Has Ritz bad-mouthed the wrong person? Has her signature cat-and-mouse “bomb drop” been dropped on her instead? Readers will salivate as they try to figure out where the fictional Ritz ends and the real-life Wendy begins.