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Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage

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Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage - Goy-Blanquet, Dominique
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Like many of his fellow playwrights, Shakespeare turned to national history for inspiration. In this study, Dominique Goy-Blanquet provides a close comparison of the Henry VI plays and Richard III with their sources, demonstrating how Shakespeare was able to meet not only the ideological but also the technical problems of turning history into drama, how by cutting, carving, shaping, and casting his unwieldy material into performable plays, he matured into the most influential dramatist and historian of his time ...

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Shakespeare's Early History Plays: From Chronicle to Stage 2003, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198119876

Hardcover