Research Catalog

William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses & the historians / Keith Dockray.

Title: William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses & the historians / Keith Dockray.
Author: Dockray, Keith.
Publication: Stroud : Tempus, 2002.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	PR2982 .D56 2002	Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

222 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing, a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's legitimate occupation of the throne; a blessing because, without Shakespeare's eight-play Plantagenet history cycle, hardly anyone beyond the confines of a few elite schools, universities and the Richard III Society would even know of their existence. Moreover, no mere historian will ever paint a more compelling and dramatic picture of England's Lancastrian and Yorkist kings, and the Wars of the Roses, than William Shakespeare." "This book begins with an examination of the context, content and significance of Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, and Richard III. It then considers the contemporary, near-contemporary and Tudor sources on which Shakespeare drew; how such authors chose to present fifteenth-century kings, politics and society; and why, and in what ways, historians since Shakespeare have sought to reinterpret the Wars of the Roses era. The book ends with a retrospective assessment of Shakespeare's Plantagenet plays, both in performance and as a result of their impact on historical writing."--Jacket.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. William Shakespeare, the Later Plantagenet Kings and the Wars of the Roses -- 2. Richard II, Henry IV and the Establishment of the Lancastrian Dynasty -- 3. Henry V, Henry VI and the Hundred Years War -- 4. Henry VI, Richard of York and the Wars of the Roses -- 5. Edward IV, Warwick the Kingmaker and the Wars of the Roses -- 6. Richard III, Henry VII and the Wars of the Roses -- 7. Tudor Historians and the Wars of the Roses -- 8. The Wars of the Roses in Stuart and Hanoverian Times -- 9. The Victorians and the Wars of the Roses -- 10. Twentieth-Century Historians and the Wars of the Roses -- 11. William Shakespeare's Plantagenet History Plays in Perspective.

ISBN

0752423207

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library