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041			_aEnglish
090			_aPR2982 _bSha 2002
245	0	0	_aShakespeare's history plays / _cedited and introduced by R.J.C. Watt.
260			_bRoutledge, _c2002.
300			_a246 p. ; _c24cm.
440		0	_aLongman critical readers.
505			_tCover Page Half Title page Series page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Battles Long Ago Providence and Humanism Essences From History to Historiography A New Historicism Cultural Materialism Ideology Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Post-Colonial Criticism Feminist and Gender-Based Criticism Current Trends Notes Chapter One Topical Ideology Witches, Amazons, and Shakespeare's Joan of Arc1 Notes Chapter Two A Mingled Yarn Shakespeare and the Cloth Workers1 Notes Chapter Three Descanting on Deformity Richard III and the Shape of History1 Notes Chapter Four Stages of History Ideological Conflict, Alternative Plots1 Notes Chapter Five Engendering a Nation Richard II 1 Notes Chapter Six Prince Hal's Falstaff Positioning Psychoanalysis and the Female Reproductive Body1 Notes Chapter Seven Carnival and History Henry IV 1 Notes Chapter Eight The Future of History 1 and 2 Henry IV 1 The Politics of Interpretation ‘From a Prince to a Prentice' ‘Of Things/as yet not Come to Life’ Notes Chapter Nine A Tale of Two Branaghs Henry V, Ideology, and the Mekong Agincourt1 Notes Chapter Ten Back by Popular Demand The Two Versions of Henry V 1 Notes Chapter Eleven ‘Wildehirissheman’ Colonialist Representation in Shakespeare's Henry V 1 I II III Notes Chapter Twelve History and Ideology, Masculinity and Miscegenation The Instance of Henry V 1 Warring Ideologies Aesthetic Colonizations Masculinity Miscegenation Notes Bibliography Index
520			_aShakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays. The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPolitical plays, English
650		0	_aHistorical drama, English
650		0	_xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_xHistory and criticism.
700	1		_aWatt, R. J. C.
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