Title The Henry VI plays / Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Carol Chillington Rutter

Published Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : illustrations Series Shakespeare in performance Shakespeare in performance. Contents Playing Henry VI in the early modern period -- Rediscoveries: nation, war and empire (1899-1953) -- The Wars of the Roses: the RSC's Henry VI and Edward IV (1963-64) -- A true trilogy: the RSC's Henry VI (1977-79) -- Henry VI and the BBC (1960 and 1981-83) -- English counter-histories: the ESC's House of Lancaster and House of York (1987-89) -- Acts of war: The RSC's The Plantagenets (1988-90) -- Plundering in front of hell: The RSC's Henry VI -- The battle for the throne (1994-95) -- Black comedies: the RSC's millennial Henry Vi (2000-1) Summary A study of the Henry VI plays in performance, this work focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions, which have explored Shakespeare's troubling depiction of England in crisis and related those themes to contemporaneous questions of national identity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry VI. Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471 -- In literature Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1950- SUBJECT Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471 fast Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Shakespeare, William. King Henry the Sixth. swd King Henry VI (Shakespeare, William) fast Subject Kings and rulers in literature. Theater -- Production and direction -- Great Britain -- Case studies DRAMA -- Shakespeare. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. Historiography Kings and rulers in literature Literature Theater -- Production and direction Aufführung SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461 -- Historiography Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book Author Rutter, Carol Chillington. LC no. 2009286345 ISBN 9781847793737 1847793738

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