Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad

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A. J. Hoenselaars
Cambridge University Press, 2004 M09 23 - 287 páginas
This volume, with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy, addresses a range of attitudes to Shakespeare's English history plays in Britain and abroad from the early seventeenth century to the present day. It concentrates on the play texts as well as productions, translations and adaptations of them. The essays explore the multiple points of intersection between the English history they recount and the experience of British and other national cultures, establishing the plays as genres not only relevant to the political and cultural history of Britain but also to the history of nearly every nation worldwide. The plays have had a rich international reception tradition but critics and theatre historians abroad, those practising 'foreign' Shakespeare, have tended to ignore these plays in favour of the comedies and tragedies. By presenting the British and foreign Shakespeare traditions side by side, this volume seeks to promote a more finely integrated world Shakespeare.

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Shakespeares history plays in Britain and abroad
9
alienating histories
37
Welshness in Shakespeares English histories
60
A French history of Henry V
75
Shakespeares history plays in Japan
92
the appropriated past III
111
Brecht and the rediscovery of Henry VI
133
Shakespeares histories in cycles
151
Shakespeares history plays in Bulgaria
169
stage adaptations of the histories
191
The Spanish premiere of Richard II
213
Shakespearean history at the Avignon Festival
228
Two Flemings at war with Shakespeare
244
Select bibliography
262
Index
275
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Página 265 - And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads : all this can I Truly deliver.

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