Shakespeare's Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two
sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and
Richard II-Henry V. Reconsidering the chronicle sources and the
staging practices of Shakespeare's time, Grene argues that the
history plays were originally designed for serial performance. He
charts the cultural and theatrical conditions that led to serial
productions of the histories, in Europe as well as in the
English-speaking world, and looks at their original creation in the
1590s and at modern productions or adaptations, from famous
stagings such as the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1960s Wars of the
Roses through to the present day. Grene focuses on the issues
raised by the plays' seriality: the imagination of war, the
emergence of character, and the uses of prophecies and curses
through the first four; techniques of retrospection, hybrid
dramatic forms, and questions of irony and agency in the second.
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