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Shakespeare's Last Plays (1938) The Personal Heresy: A Controversy with C. S. Lewis (1939) The Elizabethan World Picture (Chatto & Windus 1943, Penguin 1963) Shakespeare's History Plays (1944) Milton (1946) The Miltonic Setting: Past and Present (1947) Poetry and Its Background: Illustrated by Five Poems 1470–1870 (1948) Shakespeare's Problem ...
The source for most of the English history plays, as well as for Macbeth and King Lear, is the well-known Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of English history. The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical ...
The term Henriad was popularized by Alvin Kernan in his 1969 article, "The Henriad: Shakespeare’s Major History Plays" to suggest that the four plays of the second tetralogy (Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V), when considered together as a group, or a dramatic tetralogy, have coherence and characteristics that are the primary qualities associated with literary epic ...
The Shakespearean histories are biographies of English kings of the previous four centuries and include the standalones King John, Edward III and Henry VIII as well as a continuous sequence of eight plays. Shakespeare was living in the reign of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the House of Tudor, and his history plays are often regarded as ...
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An Age of Kings is a fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential history plays of William Shakespeare (Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), produced and broadcast in Britain by the BBC in 1960.
But as put into practice by the Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare's History Plays — "Richard II," "Henry IV," and "Henry V" — are absorbing and exhilarating. The production opened Saturday in a 13 ...
Another scholarly analysis of Shakespeare's problem-plays by A.G. Harmon argues that what the problem-plays have in common is how each consciously debates the relationship between law and nature. Many of the problem-plays address a disorder in nature, and the characters attempt to mitigate the disorder in varying manners. [4]