Shakespeare's Early History Plays: Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage

by Donald Watson

This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134911037X
• ISBN13: 9781349110377
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"