Shakespeare the Historian

By Paola Pugliatti

In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a drama which portrayed history as a critical outlook on a world of problems and retrospective possibilities, rather than as unconditional belief in, or even worship of, a world of facts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333633296
• ISBN13: 9780333633298
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"