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Zusatztext "In Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals, and Kings, Dick Riley offers an introduction to the ways that Shakespeare turned his sources into plays on both Roman and English history, analyzing what the playwright carefully adopted, what he chose to leave out, and what he reworked. By providing answers to these important questions as well as offering explanations of particular scenes and incidents that demonstrate why Shakespeare's dramas appealed to his audience, his book is an informative and useful guide for students new to Shakespeare studies."--Gerald M. Pinciss, Professor of English Emeritus at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Why Shakespeare? Informationen zum Autor Dick Riley's novels and plays include collaboration on the best-selling Black Sunday (with Thomas Harris), Rite of Expiation , and the drama Middleman Out . He lives in White Plains, New York. Zusammenfassung William Shakespeare's plays are a guide to how individuals react to the competing pressures of statecraft and personal ambition, fear and love. This book not only considers these "cases" in the plays themselves, but also in the sources available to Shakespeare - the techniques Shakespeare used to transform history into drama. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknoweldgments1 In Servile Fearfulness: Julius Caesar2 Her Infinite Variety: Antony and Cleopatra3 The Hearts of All People Shall Revolt from Him: King John4 What Subject Can Give Sentence on His King?: Richard II5 Will Fortune Never Come with Both Hands Full?: Henry IV Parts One and Two6 God Fought for Us: Henry V7 Once More We Sit in England's Royal Throne: Henry VI, Parts One, Two, and Three8 Full of Danger Is the Duke of Gloucester: Richard III9 These Fierce Vanities: Henry VIII
