1st Edition

The English History Play in the age of Shakespeare

By Irving Ribner. Copyright 1965
    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    370 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965.

    Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642 and relates this development to Renaissance historiography and Elizabethan political theory.

    1. History and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare2. The Emergence of a Dramatic Genre3. Some Early English History Plays4. The Early Shakespeare5. Historical Tragedy and Moral History6. Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy7. The Biographical Play8. Legendary and Anglo-Saxon History9. The History Play in Decline

    Biography

    Irving Ribner