The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

About this book

Shakespeares history plays have been performed in recent years more than ever before throughout Britain North America and Europe. This volume is an accessible introduction to Shakespeares historical and classical plays. Comprehensive in scope it offers chapters on the individual plays and accounts of the genre of the history play Renaissance theories of history and masques and pageants. It compares them with other European history plays and includes an account of womens roles genealogical tables and a list of principal and recurrent characters.