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2. E. M. W. Tillyard - Wikipedia

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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 ...

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. 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 ...

5. Richard II (play) - Wikipedia

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   The Entry of Richard and Bolingbroke into London (from William Shakespeare's 'Richard II', Act V, Scene 2), James Northcote (1793) The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, often shortened to Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1595.

6. 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.

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

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   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 ...

8. Henry VI, Part 3 - Wikipedia

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   It was the success of this sequence of plays that firmly established Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright. Henry VI, Part 3 features one of the longest soliloquies in all of Shakespeare (3.2.124–195) and has more battle scenes (four on stage, one reported) than any other of Shakespeare's plays.

9. A Queer Take on Shakespeare That's Perfect for History Nerds

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