King Henry IV Part 1 : Third Series Paperback / softback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Scott (Yale University, USA) Kastan
Part of the The Arden Shakespeare Third Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is.
Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history.
The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority.
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/11/2002
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- ISBN:9781904271352
Information
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/11/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9781904271352
