The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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Shakespeare's history plays have been performed in recent years more than ever before throughout Britain, North America, and Europe. This volume is an accessible introduction to Shakespeare's historical and classical plays. Comprehensive in scope, it offers chapters on the individual plays and accounts of the genre of the history play, Renaissance theories of history, and masques and pageants. It compares them with other European history plays, and includes an account of women's roles, genealogical tables and a list of principal and recurrent characters.
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Not exactly light reading, but both interesting and entertaining. I haven't learned anything new yet, but I wish I had access to it in university. I shall keep it in my collection.
