King Richard II
"To Shakespeare's contemporaries, Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time: how to cope with an unjust ruler. But over the last century or so, the play has come to be regarded as the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The introduction to this edition provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modern views of King Richard's fall." "For this updated edition Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction in which he describes the growing interest in re-historicising and re-politicising the play, surveys a number of important professional theatre productions and guides the reader through the scholarly criticism of recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and augmented."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2012
Updated edition, eight printing View all formats and editions
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom., 2012
Drama
xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521825412, 9780521532488, 0521825415, 0521532485
1022117536
Abbreviations and conventions
Introduction
Date
History
Sources
Structure
Imagery
Language
Staging
Stage history
Recent stage and critical interpretations
Note on the text
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendixes: Shakespeare's use of Holinshed
Extracts from Daniel's The civil wars
'An Homilie Against Disobedience'
Extracts from England's Parnassus
Reading list