The End Crowns All : : Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History / / Barbara Hodgdon.

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1162
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1. "Chorus to This History"
  • CHAPTER 2. Fashioning Obedience: King John's "True Inheritors"
  • CHAPTER 3. Enclosing Contention: 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI
  • CHAPTER 4. "The Coming On of Time": Richard III
  • CHAPTER 5. "If I Turn Mine Eyes upon Myself": Richard II
  • CHAPTER 6. "Let the End Try the Man": 1 and 2 Henry IV
  • CHAPTER 7. "A Full and Natural Close, Like Music": Henry V
  • CHAPTER 8. Uncommon Women and Others: Henry VIII`s "Maiden Phoenix"
  • CHAPTER 9. "No Epilogue, I Pray You"
  • NOTES
  • INDEX