King Henry VI, Part 2 (Arden Shakespeare, Third Series)

by William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor), H. R. Woudhuysen (Editor)

Overview

This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the play's progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism discusses the wide range of responses provoked by the play's handling of its historical theme, and concludes by focusing on the element of burlesque in the attempted social revolution portrayed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903436639
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/09/1999
Series:	The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	965,361
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 7.97(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.

Ronald Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Reading, UK.

ANN THOMPSON is Emeritus Professor in English at King' s College London UK.

David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.

Henry Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.

Professor Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholarly achievements made in the field of Shakespeare studies by the end of the twentieth century.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

List of illustrations General editors preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Performance - Abridgement and adaptation - From abridgement to full text Criticism - Augustans to German Romantics - Victorians and Edwardians - Tillyard and the Tudor myth - Brockbank and the anti-Tillyardians - Providence on trial - Carnivalesque history - Seneca, rhetoric and poetry - Feminism - History, justice and drama Text - The upstart Crow - Date, sequence and authorship - From revision to report - Acceptance and reaction KING HENRY VI, Part 2 Longer Notes Appendices 1) The First Quarto (1594) 2) Q1 and Q3 variants 3) Recollections in The Contention 4) Doubling chart 5) Sources 6) Genealogical tables Abbreviations and references Index