King Henry IV Part 1 :Third Series - The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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King Henry IV Part 1

King Henry IV Part 1 :Third Series - The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781904271352
ISBN10 1904271359
Number Of Pages 416
Item Weight 438 g
Product Dimensions 142 x 198 x 22 mm
Publisher / Reseller Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format paperback
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'It is the superbly generous girth of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays that makes them so remarkable' * Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 15.07.10 *
'Shakespeare's story of a troubled usurper, a rebel age, a dissolute prince and his Falstaff.' * Libby Purves, The Times, 16.07.10 *
'This is Shakespeare's masterpeice where diseaeses are turned to commodity, the hostess is eaten out of house and home, citizens are urged to construe the time to their neccessities, and white hairs ill become a fool and jester.' * Michael Coveney, Independent, 16.07.10 *

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Author's Bio

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.

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