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This revised edition of King Richard II: Critical Tradition
increases our the play was received and understood by critics,
editors and general readers. Updated with a new introduction
providing a survey of critical responses to Richard II since the
1990s to the present day, this volume offers, in separate sections,
both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an
evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the
reception of the play. The updated introduction offers an overview
of recent criticism on the play in relation to feminist theory,
queer theory, performance theory and ecocriticism. The
chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers
in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers
a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern
theories and methods. Featuring criticism by A.C. Swinburne, Walter
Pater, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, this volume makes a major
contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions
of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed
from century to century.
This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part
of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it
relates to the other plays in the sequence. Forker places the play
in its political context, discussing its relation to competing
theories of monarchy, how it faced censorship because of possible
comparisons between Richard II and Elizabeth I, and how
Bolingbroke's rebellion could be compared to the Essex rising of
the time. This edition also reconsiders Shakespeare's use of
sources, asking why he chose to emphasize one approach over
another. Forker also looks at the play's rich afterlife, and the
many interpretations that actors and directors have taken. Finally,
the edition looks closely at the aesthetic relationship between
language, character, structure, and political import. A textual
analysis of the play's eight early editions, a doubling chart for
casting, and geneological tables are included as appendices.
The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent
critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship,
reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction
comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history
and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time
of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical
approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like
dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio
sources. A full commentary by one or more of the play's foremost
contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar
terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to
explain allusions and significant background information. Highly
informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of
Shakespeare available to a reader. Table of ContentsList of
Illustrations
General Editors' Preface
Preface
Introduction
Politics
Historical Context and the Issue of Topicality
The Connection with Essex
Ideology: Competing Conceptions of Monarchy
Characterization: Attitudes towards Richard and Bolingbroke
Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Stagings
Language
Style
Imagery, Major Themes, Symbolism, Patterns of Allusion
Rhetoric
Afterlife
The Date
The Relation to "Edward II" and "Woodstock
" "Richard II" and the Second Tetralogy
Probable Venues of Early Performance
Sources
"Holinshed"
"Hall"
The Mirror for Magistrates
"Daniel"
Woodstock
"Froissart"; "Creton"; Traison
Edward II
"Minor Sources"
Text
THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND
Longer Notes
Appendices
1 Textual Analysis
2 Doubling Chart
3 Genealogical Tables
Abbreviations and references
Abbreviations used in notes
Works by and partly by Shakespeare
Editions of Shakespeare collated or referred to
Other works
Modern stage and television productions cited
Index
Forker's critical edition fills the need for a fully annotated,
historically contextualised and modernised text of the most
important Elizabethan chronicle play apart from Shakespeare and
Marlowe's Edward II. Now attributed definitely to George Peele,
this drama helped to establish a major theatrical genre, raising
contemporary political and religious issues through the
dramatisation of medieval history in a compelling and popular
fashion. A major source for Shakespeare, it throws new light on the
bard's adaptation of earlier drama and helps to illustrate his
working methods. With the full introduction and generous notes this
Revels Plays edition will be the first port of call for students
and enthusiasts of Elizabethan and early modern drama. -- .
While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been
voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the
scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and
his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of
restricting the search for bits and pieces of evidence from his
works that seem to match what he may have experienced, these essays
focus on the contemporary milieu-political developments, social and
theater history, and cultural and religious pressures-as well as
the domestic conditions within Shakespeare's family that shaped his
personality and are featured in his works. The authors of these
essays, employing the tenets of critical theory and practice as
well as intuitive and informed insight, endeavor to look behind the
masks, thus challenging the reader to adjudicate among the
possible, the probable, the likely, and the unlikely. With the
exception of the editor's own piece on Hamlet, Shakespeare the Man:
New Decipherings presents previously unpublished essays, inviting
the reader to embark upon an intellectual adventure into the
fascinating terrain of Shakespeare's mind and art.
While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been
voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the
scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and
his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of
restricting the search for bits and pieces of evidence from his
works that seem to match what he may have experienced, these essays
focus on the contemporary milieu-political developments, social and
theater history, and cultural and religious pressures-as well as
the domestic conditions within Shakespeare's family that shaped his
personality and are featured in his works. The authors of these
essays, employing the tenets of critical theory and practice as
well as intuitive and informed insight, endeavor to look behind the
masks, thus challenging the reader to adjudicate among the
possible, the probable, the likely, and the unlikely. With the
exception of the editor's own piece on Hamlet, Shakespeare the Man:
New Decipherings presents previously unpublished essays, inviting
the reader to embark upon an intellectual adventure into the
fascinating terrain of Shakespeare's mind and art.
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