Shakespeare's History Plays - Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad (Hardcover, New)

This 2004 volume, with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy, addresses a range of attitudes to Shakespeare's English history plays in Britain and abroad from the early seventeenth century to the present day. It concentrates on the play texts as well as productions, translations and adaptations of them. The essays explore the multiple points of intersection between the English history they recount and the experience of British and other national cultures, establishing the plays as genres not only relevant to the political and cultural history of Britain but also to the history of nearly every nation worldwide. The plays have had a rich international reception tradition but critics and theatre historians abroad, those practising 'foreign' Shakespeare, have tended to ignore these plays in favour of the comedies and tragedies. By presenting the British and foreign Shakespeare traditions side by side, this volume seeks to promote a more finely integrated world Shakespeare.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	Ton Hoenselaars
Foreword by:	Dennis Kennedy (Professor Emeritus of Drama)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-82902-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	0-521-82902-X
Barcode:	9780521829021

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