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Radical Stages: Alternative History in Modern British Drama (Chap. 1 "Historical Drama") » Read Now
by D. Keith Peacock. 204 pgs.

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This volume examines the evolution of British historical drama from John Osborne's 1956 landmark Look Back in Anger to the 1980s. Peacock illustrates how the ruling group within a society establishes a cultural hegemony by which it perpetuates its values and demonstrates how the historical drama of...
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This volume examines the evolution of British historical drama from John Osborne's 1956 landmark Look Back in Anger to the 1980s. Peacock illustrates how the ruling group within a society establishes a cultural hegemony by which it perpetuates its values and demonstrates how the historical drama of the period was employed as a weapon in an assault upon this cultural hegemony. Among dramatists examined are Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths, Edward Bond, and David Edgar. The study analyzes how the revolutionary and social movements of the period, including the women's movement, are reflected in its historical drama and speculates on the future of British historical drama in the changing political climate of the 1990s.
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Rethinking Gender and Genre in the History Play, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Martha A. Kurtz. 21 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...criticism of Elizabethan drama in the past fifteen...role on Shakespeares historical stage. But there is...allotted to them in the historical and political drama did not...
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The Birth of the History Play: Saint, Sacrifice, and Reformation, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 » Read Now
by Benjamin Griffin. 20 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...channels, creating a new form of historical drama, in which a sense of commemoration...of its theatrical aspect into historical drama. The celebration of the...
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American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century » Read Now
by David Glassberg. 381 pgs.

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Types of Historical Drama (1928) » Read Now
by Robert Metcalf Smith. 638 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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A History of Late Nineteenth Century Drama, 1850-1900, Vol. I ("Domestic and Historical Drama" begins on p. 82) » Read Now
by Allardyce Nicoll. 228 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1. Domestic and Historical Drama 82...development of a new drama in the last decades...standing on our historical vantage ground...of the English Drama 1895 , p. 86...not...
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The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare (Chap. 9 "The History Play in Decline") » Read Now
by Irving Ribner. 358 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...entire field of Elizabethan historical drama. But before we can begin to...concerned with but one part of the historical drama of the age of Shakespeare...and which...
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World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh ("The Poetic-Historical Drama from Scandinavia to Slovenia" begins on p. 737) » Read Now
by Allardyce Nicoll. 1000 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Strindberg and the Historical Drama » Read Now
by Walter Gilbert Johnson. 326 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays » Read Now
by Alexander Leggatt. 272 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama » Read Now
by Peter Saccio. 292 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

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...
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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.
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