Irving Ribner. CHAPTER ONE History and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare he type of history play which flourished in the age of Shakespeare was particularly an expression of the English Renaissance . Although its roots are deep in the ...

Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in ...

In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era.

The result is an important, lasting, and concise companion guide to the works of Shakespeare by one of our most eminent literary scholars.

The central theme of these five history plays is political, they deal with the gain and loss of power.

Showing how overlooked publication agents constructed and read early modern history plays, this book fundamentally re-evaluates the genre.

Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the study of history a new urgency.

English Drama 1586-1642 looks at Elizabethan drama inside preconditions of popular entertainment that allowed dramatists, in ancient Athens and modern Hollywood no less than Renaissance London, to move easily from vulgar realism to poetic ...