Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History

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ID19907775
AuthorsBrian Walsh (0000-0001-5151-0674, Yale University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-12-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueShakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511657498
OpenAlexW1531863690
Open LibraryOL23712731M
ISBN9780511657498
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDxmRgPgAACAAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The Elizabethan history play was one of the most prevalent dramatic genres of the 1590s, and so was a major contribution to Elizabethan historical culture. The genre has been well served by critical studies that emphasize politics and ideology; however, there has been less interest in the way history is interrogated as an idea in these plays. Drawing in period-sensitive ways on the field of contemporary performance theory, this book looks at the Shakespearean history play from a fresh angle, by first analyzing the foundational work of the Queen's Men, the playing company that invented the popular history play. Through innovative readings of their plays including The Famous Victories of Henry V before moving on to Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry V, this book investigates how the Queen's Men's self-consciousness about performance helped to shape Shakespeare's dramatic and historical imagination

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Consciousness · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · History of literature · Ideology · Literature · Performance art · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Queen (butterfly) · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · 1500-1600 · 1564-1616 · 16th century · Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 · England · English drama · English drama, early modern and elizabethan · English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan · English Historical drama · Great britain · Historical drama · Historical drama, history and criticism · History and criticism · Knowledge · Knowledge and learning · Literature and history · Queen's Men (Theater company) · Shakespeare, william, knowledge and learning · Theater · William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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