A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 2: Shakespeare's Histories

Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Works #2

by Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor)

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This companion to Shakespeare's histories contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories.

Genres: Shakespeare

496 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003