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This 2004 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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Shakespeare's History Plays
• Subtitle: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad
• Author: Ton HoenselaarsDennis Kennedy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780521035484
• ISBN: 0521035481
• ID: 02019400
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 167 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. February 2007

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