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Shakespeare the Historian

Shakespeare the Historian

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 0333633296
ISBN13: 9780333633298
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 18 1995
Pages: 265
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a drama which portrayed history as a critical outlook on a world of problems and retrospective possibilities, rather than as unconditional belief in, or even worship of, a world of facts.

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