Shakespeare's History Plays : Rethinking Historicism /
Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches This 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 Shakespea...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1: Introduction
- ch. 2: New historicism
- ch. 3: Cultural materialism
- ch. 4: An argument against anti-humanism
- ch. 5: Solutions
- ch. 6: Shakespeare's historical and political thought in context
- ch. 7: Personal action and agency in Henry VI
- ch. 8: Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV
- ch. 9: Conclusion.