Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77539-7 - The Cambridge Companion to: Shakespeare’s History Plays Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays Shakespeare’s history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging, and informed introduction to Shakespeare’s history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women’s roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. 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Information regarding prices, travel timetables, and other factual information given in this work is correct at the time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77539-7 - The Cambridge Companion to: Shakespeare’s History Plays Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More information CONTENTS List of figures page ix List of contributors xi List of abbreviations xii Chronology xv part 1:contexts 1 The Shakespearean history play 3 michael hattaway 2 Shakespeare and the early modern history play 25 a. j. hoenselaars 3 Pageants, masques, and history 41 david m. bergeron 4 Elizabethan historiography and Shakespeare’s sources 57 dominique goy-blanquet 5 Women’s roles in the Elizabethan history plays 71 phyllis rackin part 2:the plays 6 Plantagenets, Lancastrians, Yorkists, and Tudors: 1–3 Henry VI, Richard III, Edward III 89 janis lull 7 Historical legacy and fiction: the poetical reinvention of KingRichard III 106 marie-hel´ ene` besnault and michel bitot 8 King John: changing perspectives 126 a. j. piesse vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77539-7 - The Cambridge Companion to: Shakespeare’s History Plays Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More information list of contents 9 Richard II: Shakespeare and the languages of the stage 141 robyn bolam 10 Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 158 james c. bulman 11 Henry V: ‘the quick forge and working house of thought’ 177 pamela mason 12 Shakespeare’s ancient Rome: difference and identity 193 robert s. miola 13 Shakespeare’s other historical plays 214 r. a. foakes 14 Theatrical afterlives 229 stuart hampton-reeves part 3:reference material Principal and recurrent characters in the English histories 247 Genealogical tables 261 1 The Early Plantagenets 261 2 The House of Lancaster 262 3 The House of York 263 Reading list and references 264 Index 279 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-77539-7 - The Cambridge Companion to: Shakespeare’s History Plays Edited by Michael Hattaway Frontmatter More information FIGURES 1 Joan of Arc (see 1 Henry VI) leadingthe assault against Paris, from Martial d’Auvergne, Vigiles du roi Charles VII, 1484 (MS franc¸ais 5054, folio 66v, Bibliotheque` nationale de France). page 5 2 The murder of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (see Richard II), from ‘De la mort du duc de Gloucester et du comte d’Arundel’, Jean Froissart, Chroniques de France et d’Angleterre, c.1480 (MS franc¸ais 2646, folio 289v, Bibliotheque` Nationale de France). 27 3 The Fenchurch Arch, with the City of London carved in miniature on top, from Stephen Harrison, Arches of Triumph (London, 1604). (British Library.) 43 4 The Hortus Euporiae (Garden of Plenty), from Stephen Harrison, Arches of Triumph (London, 1604). (British Library.) 45 5 Henry VI, RSC 2000, with Richard Dillane as Suffolk, David Oyelow as KingHenry VI, Fiona Bell as Queen Margaret. Photograph: Manuel Harlan. (Royal Shakespeare Company Press Office.) 73 6 Richard Pasco as Richard II and Ian Richardson as Bullingbrook (disguised as the Groom in 5.5)inJohn Barton’s RSC production of Richard II, 1973. Photograph: Donald Cooper. 144 7 Samuel West as Richard II, RSC 2000. Photograph: