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Pages in category "Historical plays" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * History (theatrical ...
The source for most of the English history plays, as well as for Macbeth and King Lear, is the well-known Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of English history. The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical ...
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...
A significant factor in the favorable treatment that history plays received was the social function that commentators of the time believed that plays of this genre provided. For Thomas Nash and Thomas Heywood, for example, the English history play immortalized English heroes of the past and created a sense of national pride in audiences. [11]
The Lord Chamberlain in Henry VIII is a conflation of two historical Lords Chamberlain, one of them Lord Sandys, who is also a character in the play. (The other is the Earl of Worcester.) The Lord Chancellor (historically Sir Thomas More, although not identified as such in the play) is among the Privy Counsellors who accuse Cranmer in Henry VIII.
Shakespeare, as was customary for other playwrights in his day, used history, other plays, and non-dramatic literature as sources for his plays. Additionally, tragedy was a new and exciting theatrical phenomenon in the late 16th century, rather than an established and self-evident dramatic form; because of this, Shakespeare and his ...
In 1980, Bree isn’t going to war, but she does have an enemy. Ernie thinks Bree should go to Roger (Richard Rankin) in Boston for safety, and while he isn’t this century or country, Bree agrees.
These four plays are argued to represent a phase of Shakespeare's career when he was experimenting with rhyming iambic pentameter as an alternative form to standard blank verse; Richard II has more rhymed verse than any other history play (19.1%), Romeo and Juliet more than any other tragedy (16.6%) and Love's Labour's and Midsummer Night more ...