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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Henry VI"”.
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Shakespeare and the Earl of Warwick: the kingmaker in the Henry VI trilogy
… of Shakespeare’s characterisation of Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, colloquially known by his soubriquet ‘kingmaker’. Shakespeare’s reification of the reputations of characters from the regal history of late medieval England substantially maintains our interest in historical figures such …
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Witchcraft, rebellion, and misrule : a study of Shakespeare's first tetralogy
… witchcraft and diabolism, elements central to 1 Henry VI and Richard III--the first and last plays of the tetralogy--have not been fully analyzed. Witchcraft, introduced by Shakespeare as a structural device with the portrayal of Joan of Arc in 1 Henry VI, is demonstrated to be, iconographically, …
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Blurring the Gender Lines: Margaret of Anjou's use of Gender as Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy
… in Shakespeare’s tetralogy beginning with <em>I Henry VI</em>. Margaret is the only female character to be featured in and survive all four plays. From her entrance in <em>I</em> <em>Henry VI,</em> she is a force to be reckoned with; she uses her femininity as a weapon, and as the <em>Henry …
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"For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings": Affect in Shakespearean performance
… medieval theater, to which audiences responded viscerally. To illustrate these responses, I draw upon <em>3 Henry VI</em> and <em>Richard III</em>. I then examine <em>Hamlet</em>, <em>Twelfth Night</em>, and <em>As You Like It</em> for their treatment of representation, empathy, and the power of …
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
… close readings of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry VI, Part 2, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. Rather than treating gentility in Shakespeare's drama as a broad social identity or a loose symbolic repository of moral and cultural values, this study approaches Shakespeare's representation of …
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Interrogation of Conscience and Audience in Shakespeare's Early Plays
… the acting troupe, the playgoers, the individual conscience—known as “God’s spy”—and the omniscient divine sphere. The study describes the restructuring of these spheres through the interrogational process. Chapter Two discusses interrogation of accused heretics and traitors as described in …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
… concerned with Edward Hall's Chronicle and the Henry VI plays, but also contains a broader discussion of Renaissance historiography that includes Samuel Daniel's The Civil ~ and the influence of Machiavelli. In Chapter Three a discussion of the preoccupation of Euphuistic fictions with the …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… as promoting national order sustained by the divinely appointed monarch. However, close analysis of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (1589-1592) and Thomas Dekker and John Webster’s The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) demonstrates how, by representing history onstage, …
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Other Englands: Regionalism in Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy
… of English history from the accession of Henry VI to the death of Richard Ill. In this thesis I propose that the first tetralogy is not only a representation of the past, but an expression of the political, cultural and geographical divisions within England during the period of the plays …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… My concept of ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’ provides scholars with a framework for understanding this particular branch of magical enquiry which sought to distinguish itself from witchcraft, fairy magic, and prophecy. Solomonic exceptionalism is a concept which reveals gendered and class …