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Shakespeare: The Histories

Shakespeare: The Histories PDF Author: Graham Holderness
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312227135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Graham Holderness provides a new treatment of Shakespeare's historical dramas by reviewing past sources in light of modern theory, thus redefining the world about which Shakespeare wrote. He begins with the social and cultural context in which these "historical" plays of chivalric antiquity and masculine virtue were written and suggests that the world depicted in the plays represented a male-dominated aristocracy preoccupied with war and violence. The book reveals antiquity's contradictions in all their glamour and glory, their absurdities and arrogance, and provides alternative contexts for reading Shakespeare's history plays.