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Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare Klappentext Two of Shakespeare's important and illuminating history plays in a comprehensive and scholarly update. This edition includes a discussion and criticism of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by outstanding scholars past and present, stage histories of notable actors, directors, and producers, and clear, readable text and commentaries. Zusammenfassung Two of Shakespeare's important and illuminating history plays in a comprehensive and scholarly update. This edition includes a discussion and criticism of Shakespeare's life! world! and theater by outstanding scholars past and present! stage histories of notable actors! directors! and producers! and clear! readable text and commentaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Shakespeare Shakespeare: An Overview Biographical Sketch / A Note on the Anti Stratfordians, Especially Baconians and Oxfordians / The Shakespeare Canon / Shakespeare's English / Shakespeare's Theatre / A Note on the Use of Boy Actors in Female Roles / Shakespeare's Dramatic Language: Costumes, Gestures and Silences; Prose and Poetry / The Play Text as a Collaboration / Editing Texts / Shakespeare on the Stage Introduction to King John The Life and Death of King John Textual Note The Sources of The Life and Death of King John Raphael Holinshed From Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland Edward Hall From The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York Commentaries Donald A. Stauffer From Shakespeare's World of Images Harold C. Goddard From The Meaning of Shakespeare Muriel St. Clare Byrne From The Shakespeare Season at . . . Stratford-upon-Avon, 1957 Alan C. Dessen Deborah Warner's Stratford-upon-Avon Production (1988) Sylvan Barnet King John on Stage and Screen Introduction to Henry VIII Henry VIII Textual Note The Sources of Henry VIII Raphael Holinshed From Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland John Foxe From Acts and Monuments of Martyrs Commentaries Willaim Hazlitt From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Caroline F. E. Spurgeon From Shakespeare's Imagery G. Wilson Knight A Note on Henry VIII Mark Van Doren Henry VIII Jane Lapotaire Playing Katherine in the Vision Scene (4.2) of Henry VIII S. Schoenbaum Henry VIII on Stage and Screen Suggested References ...
