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William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians (Paperback)
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William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians (Paperback)
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For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both
a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin
on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's
occupation of the English throne; a blessing because, without
Shakespeare's 8 -play Plantagenet history cycle, hardly anyone
beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their
existence. Moreover, no mere historian will ever paint a more
compelling and dramatic picture of England's Lancastrian and
Yorkist kings, and the Wars of the Roses, than William
Shakespeare.The book begins with an examination of the context,
content and significance of each of the plays from Richard 2nd to
Richard 3rd, and then considers the contemporary, near-contemporary
and Tudor sources on which Shakespeare drew; how such authors chose
to present 15th Century kings, politics and society; and in what
ways historians since Shakespeare have sought to reinterpret the
Wars of the Roses era. The book ends with a retrospective
assessment of Shakespeare's Plantagenet plays, both in performance
and as a result of their impact on historical writing.The Plays:
Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I1, 2
and 3 and Richard III.
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