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2. E. M. W. Tillyard - Wikipedia

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   Tillyard was a Fellow in English (1926–1959) at Jesus College, later becoming Master (1945–1959). He is known mainly for his book The Elizabethan World Picture (1943), as background to Elizabethan literature , particularly Shakespeare , and for his works on John Milton . [ 2 ]

3. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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   For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.

5. Review: Guthrie's epic Shakespeare History Plays opens in ...

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   The plays run in rotating repertory through May 25. Where: Guthrie Theater, 818 S. 2nd St., Mpls. Tickets: $34-$82 for single tickets on nonmarathon days, $66-$150 for all shows on May 18. 612-377 ...

6. Henriad - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. An Age of Kings - Wikipedia

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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.

8. Henry VI, Part 1 - Wikipedia

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   First page of The first Part of Henry the Sixt from the First Folio (1623).. Henry VI, Part 1, often referred to as 1 Henry VI, is a history play by William Shakespeare—possibly in collaboration with Thomas Nashe and others—believed to have been written in 1591.

9. King John (play) - Wikipedia

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   The first page of King John from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623. King John is closely related to an anonymous history play, The Troublesome Reign of King John (c. 1589), the "masterly construction" [9] the infelicitous expression of which led Peter Alexander to argue that Shakespeare's was the earlier play. [13] E. A. J.