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... VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xii, 256 p. SUBJECT(S): Great Britain; History; Historiography; In literature; 1066-1687; Historical drama, English; History and criticism; Shakespeare, William; Histories. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. LC NUMBER: PR2982 . ...

... I. Rackin, Phyllis. ... We cannot list them all here, but special thanks go to Nina Auerbach, David Lorenzo Boyd, Catherine Belsey, Lynda Boose, Greg Bredbeck, Rebecca Bushnell, CarolineBynum, Dympna Callaghan, Bill Carroll, Marlene Clark, Elaine Combs-Shilling, Fran Dolan ...

Historiography is a major concern in Shakespeare's history plays. Characters repeatedly allude to history, past and future, and define their actions as attempts to in-scribe their names in the historical record. Like their playwright, these characters show an obsessive concern with ...

... for the audience as well as for the loyal subjects within the play results from the impossibility of opposing one without com-miting treason against ... by the whole Tudor mystique of kingship that underlies his use of the commonplace analogy between the king and the sun, and by ...

Pieces and fragments are characteristic images in Coriolanus, division, literal and symbolic, the characteristic process. Literal divisions determine the plot: patricians against plebeians, Romans against Volsces, the hero against the mob. The body politic is dismembered, one faction ...