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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166653103321

Autore

Parvini Neema

Titolo

Shakespeare's History Plays : Rethinking Historicism / / Neema Parvini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

9781474423540

147442354X

9780748646142

0748646140

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

822.33

Soggetti

Literary Criticism / Shakespeare

Literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

New historicism -- Cultural materialism -- An argument against anti-humanism -- Solutions -- Shakespeare's historical and political thought in context -- Personal action and agency in Henry VI -- Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV.

Sommario/riassunto

Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approachesThis important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing