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Playing the Past - Approaches to English Historical Drama, 1385-1600 (Hardcover)
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Playing the Past - Approaches to English Historical Drama, 1385-1600 (Hardcover)
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The history plays of the late 16th century are shown as neither a
Shakespearean nor an Elizabethan invention, but as a development of
medieval drama. Two overlapping areas of English historical drama
are examined in this study. The first is the large group of plays
dramatising the lives of powerful people in the past of the English
nation (native-subject drama), from the end ofthe fourteenth
century to the end of the sixteenth, and the second is the select
group of these plays produced in the 1580s, at the height of their
flourishing. Griffin charts the development of historical drama
from the Mass andSaint plays on Thomas Becket, through the
Reformation and its legacy, to the later history plays, showing
that the history play is neither Shakespeare's nor an Elizabethan
invention, but has its roots in medieval drama. The use made by
Shakespeare and Marlowe of the various types of historical drama -
the sacrificial, the festive and the formless genealogical - is
discussed, and the decline of the history play examined, reviewing
and amending critical explanations of the extinction of the
genre.BENJAMIN GRIFFIN was educated at the University of
California, Berkeley, and Cambridge University.
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