9781781554159 - William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians di Dockray, Keith (4 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: New. Softback 190 pages Published Price £16.99 No mere historian will ever paint a more compelling and dramatic picture of England's Lancastrian and Yorkist kings, and the Wars of the Roses, than William Shakespeare.The book begins with an examination of the context, content and significance of each of the plays from Richard 2nd to Richard 3rd, and then considers the contemporary, near-contemporary and Tudor sources on which Shakespeare drew; how such authors chose to present 15th Century kings, politics and society; and in what ways historians since Shakespeare have sought to reinterpret the Wars of the Roses era. The book ends with a retrospective assessment of Shakespeare's Plantagenet plays, both in performance and as a result of their impact on historical writing.The Plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I1, 2 and 3 and Richard III.âShakespeare may have started writing the first of his fifteenth-century plays - about the calamities of Henry VI's reign - in 1591/2,170 years after the accession of the hapless king, and completed the last of the sequencon Henry V, 'the prequel' as Keith Dockray nicely calls it - in 1599, 177 years after the victor of Agincourt died. But his Richard III (c. 1592) was written little more than acentury after the battle of Bosworth. Whether modern commentators like it or not, or are impressed with the sweep of his historical vision or not, Shakespeare was, amongst several other things, a Tudor historian of fifteenth-century England, and especially of the Wars of the Roses (1450-85) which his own age regarded, with a vividness akin to that with which many twenty-first-century British look back on the Second World.âNottingham Medieval Studies.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mint condition.Fonthill Media,2016.First edition-first impression of this new edition.Paperback in mint condition.The book is new.190pp including Family tree,bibliography. First edition-first impression of this new edition.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mint condition.Fonthill Media,2016.First edition-first impression of this new edition.Paperback in mint condition.The book is new.190pp including Family tree,bibliography. First edition-first impression of this new edition.