Henri VI, Part one - The Oxford Shakespeare

Klappentext With a newly added critical commentary by Phyllis Racklin and commentaries by other noted Shakespeare scholars, this edition provides three of Shakespeare's great history plays in one comprehensive volume. Zusammenfassung 1 Henry VI was the Rose's great draw in the Spring of 1592, and is a dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists; the fractious instability of the court and nobility of fifteenth-century England, and their squabbles with their French counterparts.Despite its debut performance in 1592, however, 1 Henry VI does not take a printed form until its appearance some thirty years later in the 1623 folio. There are many questions, therefore, surrounding exactly how many people wrote the play, when they did so, how it was performed, who played what part, and what was the nature of the manuscript behind the first performance. In his wide-ranging introduction, Michael Taylor offers answers to these questions, and discusses other key issues such as language, structure, performance history, and the role of women in the play. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction Editorial Procedures The First Part of Henry the Sixth Appendices Index

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Michael Taylor (Editor), Michael (Former Professor of English Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2003
• EAN: 9780198183921
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818392-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford Shakespeare (Hardcover); The Oxford Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean