Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 37Gale Research Company, 1998 |
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... play's episodic struc- ture by invoking the medieval de casibus tradition , thus explaining a Jacobean history play in terms of an essentially medieval theory of history . Frank V. Ces- pedes argues " that the structure of Henry VIII is ...
... play's episodic struc- ture by invoking the medieval de casibus tradition , thus explaining a Jacobean history play in terms of an essentially medieval theory of history . Frank V. Ces- pedes argues " that the structure of Henry VIII is ...
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... play in " the tendency in post 1940 scholarship to describe John as ambivalent , ambiguous , suspicious , sceptical , questioning and ideologically subversive " . The form and tone of John , in other words , are recognisably modern ...
... play in " the tendency in post 1940 scholarship to describe John as ambivalent , ambiguous , suspicious , sceptical , questioning and ideologically subversive " . The form and tone of John , in other words , are recognisably modern ...
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... play was due , according to David Bevington , to a need for relevant , but indirect , appeals to " war fever " .28 Anti - Spanish and anti - Catholic sentiments were common across a range of plays . John's resistance to Pandulph in ...
... play was due , according to David Bevington , to a need for relevant , but indirect , appeals to " war fever " .28 Anti - Spanish and anti - Catholic sentiments were common across a range of plays . John's resistance to Pandulph in ...
Contents
Geraldo U de Sousa The Peasants Revolt and the Writing of History in 2 Henry | 105 |
Historiography and Legitimation in Henry VIII | 122 |
Steve Longstaffe The Limits of Modernity in Shakespeares King John | 132 |
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