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Hodder Wayland King Lear (Shakespeare Collection S.)
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Heinemann Educational Secondary Division King Henry V (Heinemann Shakespeare S.)
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Naxos AudioBooks King Lear
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Oxford Paperbacks King Henry IV: Pt.1 (Oxford World's Classics)
Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of <I>Henry IV Part One</I>, <I>Henry IV Part Two</I> takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of <I>Part One</I>., <I>Part Two</I> is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that I will turn diseases to commodity. <p> The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of <I>Part One</I>, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of <I>Part Two</I>. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of <I>Part One</I>. I know thee not, old man he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, <I>Henry V</I>. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Oxford Paperbacks King Henry VIII: King Henry VIII, or All Is True (Oxford World's Classics)
Believed to be Shakespeare's very last play, <I>Henry VIII</I> is probably best remembered as the play which, when performed in June 1613, led to the Globe Theatre burning down due to the fireworks and cannon fire listed in the stage directions. However, otherwise the play has puzzled critics, who can see little more in it than a nostalgic account of Henry's reign, and the prophetic birth and christening of Elizabeth, Shakespeare's Queen, which takes place at the end of the play.<p><I>Henry VIII</I> deals with the intrigue which surrounds Henry's court, and in particular the controversial figure of Cardinal Wolsey, and Henry's separation from his wife Katherine, and infatuation with Anne Bullen. However, there is little sense of the psychological complexity created by Shakespeare in earlier history plays like <I>Henry V</I>. Henry VIII himself is a grand but distant figure, and the virulent anti-Catholicism lacks complexity. Within an increasingly troubled political period, the final hopeful invocation of Peace, plenty, love, truth seems rather flat, as does the play as a whole. This has led many critics to argue that Shakespeare was just one of many collaborators in the writing of the play. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Oxford Paperbacks King Henry V (Oxford World's Classics)
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Oxford Paperbacks King Henry IV: Pt.2 (Oxford Shakespeare S.)
Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of <I>Henry IV Part One</I>, <I>Henry IV Part Two</I> takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of <I>Part One</I>., <I>Part Two</I> is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that I will turn diseases to commodity. <p> The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of <I>Part One</I>, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of <I>Part Two</I>. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of <I>Part One</I>. I know thee not, old man he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, <I>Henry V</I>. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Oxford Paperbacks King Henry VI: Pt.3 (Oxford Shakespeare S.)
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Penguin Books Ltd King Henry VIII (New Penguin Shakespeare S.)
Believed to be Shakespeare's very last play, <I>Henry VIII</I> is probably best remembered as the play that, when performed in June 1613, led to the Globe Theatre burning down due to the fireworks and cannon fire listed in the stage directions. However, the play has puzzled critics, who can see little more in it than a nostalgic account of Henry's reign, and the prophetic birth and christening of Elizabeth, Shakespeare's future Queen, that takes place at the end of the play. <p> <I>Henry VIII</I> deals with the intrigue that surrounds Henry's court, and in particular the controversial figure of Cardinal Wolsey, and Henry's separation from his wife Katherine and infatuation with Anne Bullen. However, there is little sense of the psychological complexity created by Shakespeare in earlier history plays such as <I>Henry V</I>. Henry VIII himself is a grand but distant figure, and the virulent anti-Catholicism lacks complexity. Within an increasingly troubled political period, the final hopeful invocation of peace, plenty, love, truth seems rather flat, as does the play as a whole. This has led many critics to argue that Shakespeare was just one of many collaborators in the writing of the play. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd King Richard II (New Penguin Shakespeare S.)
One of Shakespeare's finest history plays, <I>Richard II</I> deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day--the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner to the two parts of <I>Henry IV</I>, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in the spring of 1400. But the play has been celebrated above and beyond its stature as historical drama. <I>Richard II</I> begins with a portrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regarding sovereign, with little sense of his people or his political responsibilities. As he consistently miscalculates in his attempts to destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomes a far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs, and sad stories of the death of kings. Richard's speeches become increasingly lyrical and poetic as his supporters desert him, until he finally takes on the stature of the pilloried Christ in the climax of the play, the deposition scene, one of the most politically risky scenes in all of Shakespeare. The play remains most famous for John of Gaunt's This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle speech, but historians believe that the play was also performed in the streets of London in 1601 in support of the Earl of Essex's attempt to depose Elizabeth I. Whilst the plot failed, it showed the power of the theatre of the time, and the politically controversial nature of Shakespeare's play. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd King Lear (Penguin Popular Classics)
<I>King Lear</I> stands alongside <I>Hamlet</I> as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes to shake all cares and business from our age and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous division of the kingdom gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters. <p> As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his bitter Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has ta'en / Too little care of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in <I>King Lear</I>, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that All's cheerless, dark and deadly. Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd King Lear (Penguin Shakespeare S.)
Pages: 368, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd
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Naxos AudioBooks King Henry V
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Oxford Paperbacks King John (Oxford World's Classics)
One of Shakespeare's most unpopular history plays, <I>King John</I> deals with the life and death of King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216. This is as early as Shakespeare goes in his treatment of English history, concentrating more successfully on the later 14th and 15th centuries in the plays which stretch from <I>Richard II</I> to <I>Henry VI</I>. As a result <I>King John</I> suffers from being so historically distant in time, as well as offering a rather weak and vacillating king, who lacks the charisma and authority of Richard III or Henry V. The play begins with King John struggling to retain his throne, under attack from rebellious courtiers and Philip, the king of France. As the quarrel escalates into war with France, the play begins to take on a contemporary Elizabethan flavour--the feared invasion from a foreign (Catholic) nation, and the extent to which such an invasion is based on the questionable paternity of King John (like Queen Elizabeth, John is accused of being a bastard and is excommunicated). The play is saved from its rather colourless political machinations by Philip the Bastard, John's favourite, a dramatic forerunner of dubious but charismatic malcontents like Edmund in <I>King Lear</I>. It is also Philip who is given the most powerful and patriotic lines, when he claims that This England never did, nor never shall,/Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. King John's mysterious and anticlimactic death through illness at the end of the play deflates expectations - something that could be said of the play as a whole. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd Henry V (The New Penguin Shakespeare)
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Cambridge University Press King Richard II (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
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HarperCollins King Lear: Complete & Unabridged
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Penguin Books Ltd King Henry IV: Pt.1 (New Penguin Shakespeare S.)
Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of <I>Henry IV Part One</I>, <I>Henry IV Part Two</I> takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of <I>Part One</I>., <I>Part Two</I> is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that I will turn diseases to commodity. <p> The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of <I>Part One</I>, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of <I>Part Two</I>. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of <I>Part One</I>. I know thee not, old man he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, <I>Henry V</I>. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Arden Shakespeare King Henry VI: Pt. 3 (Arden Shakespeare: Third S.)
This second part of the history of Henry VI begins where <I>Henry VI Part One</I> ends. The Wars of the Roses between the Houses of York and Lancaster are in full swing, whilst intrigue at court becomes even more intense. Henry's wife, Margaret of Anjou takes centre stage with her lover Suffolk, conspiring against Henry's uncle, Gloucester, claiming that his wife is in league with a coven of witches. The Duke of York also plots against the ineffectual Henry, encouraging a people's revolt led by the memorable figure of Jack Cade, and then taking to the field himself. At the Battle of St. Albans, York's son Richard, the future King Richard III, kills Gloucester, leaving the Yorkist faction in the ascendancy.<p>A violent and chaotic play, <I>Henry VI Part Two</I> shows much of Shakespeare's early dramatic inexperience. Much of the verse, and many of the minor characters are undifferentiated. However, both Margaret of Anjou and Jack Cade are fascinating early characterisations which foreshadow some of Shakespeare's greatest subsequent tragic figures. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King Henry IV: Pt. 1 (Cambridge School Shakespeare S.)
Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of <I>Henry IV Part One</I>, <I>Henry IV Part Two</I> takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of <I>Part One</I>., <I>Part Two</I> is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that I will turn diseases to commodity. <p> The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of <I>Part One</I>, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of <I>Part Two</I>. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of <I>Part One</I>. I know thee not, old man he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, <I>Henry V</I>. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Arden Shakespeare King Richard II (Arden Shakespeare: Third S.)
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Arden Shakespeare King John (Arden Shakespeare: Second S.)
A messy, uneven and disillusioned play, <I>Timon of Athens</I> is rarely studied or performed because of scepticism regarding both its authorship and completion. Like <I>Pericles</I> there seems little doubt that Shakespeare wrote the majority, but quite what he was trying to do is another matter.<p> Timon of Athens is rich and generous, happy to provide his friends, servants and acquaintances with money whenever they require it. Only the cynical Apemantus questions the soundness of Timon's actions, and the motives of his supposed friends, wondering at what a number of men eats Timon, and he sees 'em not. It grieves me to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood. When Timon's creditors ask for payment of their loans, Timon goes to his friends, but they all refuse to help him. Even worse, Timon's one loyal friend Alcibiades is exiled from Athens. After renouncing all his friends at one last banquet, Timon retires to a misanthropic life as a hermit in a cave. As he rails against yellow, glittering precious gold, he completely renounces mankind, to die alone in his cave, his epitaph claiming that Here lie I, Timon, who alive / All living men did hate. One of Shakespeare's more puzzling plays, <I>Timon of Athens</I> is unusually bleak and unforgiving, with Timon behaving like an unsympathetic version of Lear (they were both written within a couple of years of each other). --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Penguin Books Ltd King John (Penguin Shakespeare S.)
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HarperCollins King Henry IV: Complete & Unabridged Pt. 2
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HarperCollins King Henry IV: Complete & Unabridged Pt. 1
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Digireads.com King Richard III (King Richard the Third)
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Arden Shakespeare King Henry VI Part 2: Pt. 2 (Arden Shakespeare: Third S.)
This second part of the history of Henry VI begins where <I>Henry VI Part One</I> ends. The Wars of the Roses between the Houses of York and Lancaster are in full swing, whilst intrigue at court becomes even more intense. Henry's wife, Margaret of Anjou takes centre stage with her lover Suffolk, conspiring against Henry's uncle, Gloucester, claiming that his wife is in league with a coven of witches. The Duke of York also plots against the ineffectual Henry, encouraging a people's revolt led by the memorable figure of Jack Cade, and then taking to the field himself. At the Battle of St. Albans, York's son Richard, the future King Richard III, kills Gloucester, leaving the Yorkist faction in the ascendancy.<p>A violent and chaotic play, <I>Henry VI Part Two</I> shows much of Shakespeare's early dramatic inexperience. Much of the verse, and many of the minor characters are undifferentiated. However, both Margaret of Anjou and Jack Cade are fascinating early characterisations which foreshadow some of Shakespeare's greatest subsequent tragic figures. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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HarperCollins Richard II: Complete & Unabridged
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Heinemann Educational Secondary Division King Lear (Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare S.)
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Dover Publications Inc. King Henry V (Dover Thrift S.)
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd King Henry V (Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.)
Cry, 'God for Harry! England and Saint George!' Henry's V's rallying cry to his soldiers before Harfleur has become an iconic rallying cry for English nationalism. More than any other Shakespeare play, <I>Henry V</I> has been seen to define what it means to be English in its account of Henry's triumphant victory over vastly superior French forces in 1415. The play has been endlessly quoted by politicians as an incitement to patriotism, and Laurence Olivier's ground-breaking film of the play was dedicated to the Allied soldiers who landed in France on D-Day in 1944. <p> More recently critics have questioned the extent to which the play is simply a piece of nationalist propaganda, pointing to the more ambivalent reflections on the cost of war voiced by various characters throughout the play. As one of Henry's soldiers reflects on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. Henry himself has already been defined as a cunning and rather unsympathetic character in <I>Henry IV</I> Parts One and Two, and his cynical manipulation of patriotism in his pursuit of military glory is incisively undercut by the Irishman Macmorris' poignant question as to What ish my nation? This more ambivalent dimension of the play is most effectively captured in Kenneth Branagh's post-Falklands film, <I>Henry V</I>, which portrays a king much more aware of the dreadful consequences of going to war. Branagh's film suggests that <I>Henry V</I> ultimately questions, rather than endorses the glory of going into battle for one's country. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Oxford University Press King Richard II (Oxford School Shakespeare S.)
One of Shakespeare's finest history plays, <I>Richard II</I> deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day--the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner to the two parts of <I>Henry IV</I>, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in the spring of 1400. But the play has been celebrated above and beyond its stature as historical drama. <I>Richard II</I> begins with a portrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regarding sovereign, with little sense of his people or his political responsibilities. As he consistently miscalculates in his attempts to destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomes a far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs, and sad stories of the death of kings. Richard's speeches become increasingly lyrical and poetic as his supporters desert him, until he finally takes on the stature of the pilloried Christ in the climax of the play, the deposition scene, one of the most politically risky scenes in all of Shakespeare. The play remains most famous for John of Gaunt's This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle speech, but historians believe that the play was also performed in the streets of London in 1601 in support of the Earl of Essex's attempt to depose Elizabeth I. Whilst the plot failed, it showed the power of the theatre of the time, and the politically controversial nature of Shakespeare's play. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Oxford University Press King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare S.)
<I>King Lear</I> stands alongside <I>Hamlet</I> as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes to shake all cares and business from our age and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous division of the kingdom gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters. <p> As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his bitter Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has ta'en / Too little care of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in <I>King Lear</I>, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that All's cheerless, dark and deadly. Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Phoenix Press King Lear (Everyman Shakespeare S.)
<I>King Lear</I> stands alongside <I>Hamlet</I> as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes to shake all cares and business from our age and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous division of the kingdom gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters. <p> As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his bitter Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has ta'en / Too little care of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in <I>King Lear</I>, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that All's cheerless, dark and deadly. Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Dover Publications Inc. King Lear (Dover Thrift S.)
<I>King Lear</I> stands alongside <I>Hamlet</I> as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes to shake all cares and business from our age and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous division of the kingdom gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters. <p> As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his bitter Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has ta'en / Too little care of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in <I>King Lear</I>, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that All's cheerless, dark and deadly. Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Dover Publications Inc. King Richard III (Dover Thrift S.)
Now is the winter of our discontent, intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's <I>Richard III</I>, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that I am determined to prove a villain. Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as <I>The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui</I>, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of <I>Richard III</I>, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Dover Publications Inc. King Henry IV: Pt. 1 (Dover Thrift S.)
Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of <I>Henry IV Part One</I>, <I>Henry IV Part Two</I> takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of <I>Part One</I>., <I>Part Two</I> is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that I will turn diseases to commodity. <p> The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of <I>Part One</I>, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of <I>Part Two</I>. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of <I>Part One</I>. I know thee not, old man he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, <I>Henry V</I>. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King Richard III (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
Now is the winter of our discontent, intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's <I>Richard III</I>, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that I am determined to prove a villain. Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as <I>The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui</I>, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of <I>Richard III</I>, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King Henry VIII (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
Believed to be Shakespeare's very last play, <I>Henry VIII</I> is probably best remembered as the play which, when performed in June 1613, led to the Globe Theatre burning down due to the fireworks and cannon fire listed in the stage directions. However, otherwise the play has puzzled critics, who can see little more in it than a nostalgic account of Henry's reign, and the prophetic birth and christening of Elizabeth, Shakespeare's Queen, which takes place at the end of the play.<p><I>Henry VIII</I> deals with the intrigue which surrounds Henry's court, and in particular the controversial figure of Cardinal Wolsey, and Henry's separation from his wife Katherine, and infatuation with Anne Bullen. However, there is little sense of the psychological complexity created by Shakespeare in earlier history plays like <I>Henry V</I>. Henry VIII himself is a grand but distant figure, and the virulent anti-Catholicism lacks complexity. Within an increasingly troubled political period, the final hopeful invocation of Peace, plenty, love, truth seems rather flat, as does the play as a whole. This has led many critics to argue that Shakespeare was just one of many collaborators in the writing of the play. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King John (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
One of Shakespeare's most unpopular history plays, <I>King John</I> deals with the life and death of King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216. This is as early as Shakespeare goes in his treatment of English history, concentrating more successfully on the later 14th and 15th centuries in the plays which stretch from <I>Richard II</I> to <I>Henry VI</I>. As a result <I>King John</I> suffers from being so historically distant in time, as well as offering a rather weak and vacillating king, who lacks the charisma and authority of Richard III or Henry V. The play begins with King John struggling to retain his throne, under attack from rebellious courtiers and Philip, the king of France. As the quarrel escalates into war with France, the play begins to take on a contemporary Elizabethan flavour--the feared invasion from a foreign (Catholic) nation, and the extent to which such an invasion is based on the questionable paternity of King John (like Queen Elizabeth, John is accused of being a bastard and is excommunicated). The play is saved from its rather colourless political machinations by Philip the Bastard, John's favourite, a dramatic forerunner of dubious but charismatic malcontents like Edmund in <I>King Lear</I>. It is also Philip who is given the most powerful and patriotic lines, when he claims that This England never did, nor never shall,/Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. King John's mysterious and anticlimactic death through illness at the end of the play deflates expectations - something that could be said of the play as a whole. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King Richard II (Cambridge School Shakespeare S.)
One of Shakespeare's finest history plays, <I>Richard II</I> deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day--the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner to the two parts of <I>Henry IV</I>, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in the spring of 1400. But the play has been celebrated above and beyond its stature as historical drama. <I>Richard II</I> begins with a portrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regarding sovereign, with little sense of his people or his political responsibilities. As he consistently miscalculates in his attempts to destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomes a far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs, and sad stories of the death of kings. Richard's speeches become increasingly lyrical and poetic as his supporters desert him, until he finally takes on the stature of the pilloried Christ in the climax of the play, the deposition scene, one of the most politically risky scenes in all of Shakespeare. The play remains most famous for John of Gaunt's This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle speech, but historians believe that the play was also performed in the streets of London in 1601 in support of the Earl of Essex's attempt to depose Elizabeth I. Whilst the plot failed, it showed the power of the theatre of the time, and the politically controversial nature of Shakespeare's play. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare S.)
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Cambridge University Press King Lear (Cambridge School Shakespeare S.)
<I>King Lear</I> stands alongside <I>Hamlet</I> as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes to shake all cares and business from our age and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous division of the kingdom gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters. <p> As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his bitter Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has ta'en / Too little care of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in <I>King Lear</I>, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that All's cheerless, dark and deadly. Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King Edward III (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
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Cambridge University Press King Richard III (Cambridge School Shakespeare S.)
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Cambridge University Press King Henry IV: Pt.2 (Cambridge School Shakespeare S.)
Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of <I>Henry IV Part One</I>, <I>Henry IV Part Two</I> takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of <I>Part One</I>., <I>Part Two</I> is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that I will turn diseases to commodity. <p> The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of <I>Part One</I>, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of <I>Part Two</I>. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of <I>Part One</I>. I know thee not, old man he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, <I>Henry V</I>. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Cambridge University Press King Richard II (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V (New Cambridge Shakespeare S.)
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Longman King Lear (New Longman Literature 11-14 S.)
<I>King Lear</I> stands alongside <I>Hamlet</I> as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes to shake all cares and business from our age and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous division of the kingdom gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters. <p> As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his bitter Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has ta'en / Too little care of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in <I>King Lear</I>, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that All's cheerless, dark and deadly. Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --<I>Jerry Brotton</I>
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Longman King Lear (New Swan S.)
<I>King Lear</I> stands alongside <I>Hamlet</I> as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes to shake all cares and business from our age and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and | | |
