FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI by Shakespeare, William ISBN 052129634X
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This edition takes account of recent discoveries concerning Shakespeare's early career, and the statistical tests that have been devised to determine authorship where there is doubt, and pays particular attention to recent theatrical history.
Shakespeare's plays about the reign of Henry VI, written at the beginning of his career, were for a long time undervalued. This was because of doubts about their authorship and because of the difficulties involved in determining their theatrical provenance. Recently, however, a series of outstanding productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company and others has demonstrated their theatrical vitality, their conventions have been better understood in the light of new critical methods, and their innovative and sceptical questioning of Elizabethan orthodoxies has been understood in the light of revisionist readings of the history of Shakespeare's own times. This, the first major edition for over twenty-five years, takes account of recent discoveries concerning Shakespeare's early career. The First Part of King Henry VI, which gives us Shakespeare's portrait of Joan of Arc, stands revealed both as a successful venture in its own exploratory style, and as a necessary account of key events in the Hundred Years War without which the Wars of the Roses, anatomised in the following two plays, cannot be understood.
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[edit] Title
FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI
[edit] Author
Shakespeare, William
[edit] ISBN
052129634X
[edit] Published
23/04/1990
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
7.99 (GBP)
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