Shakespeare's World: The Tragedies: A Historical Exploration of Literature
byDouglas J. King is associate professor of English at Gannon University, where he teaches courses on Shakespeare, drama, and literature and film.
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King, Douglas. Shakespeare's World: The Tragedies: A Historical Exploration of Literature. Greenwood, 2018. ABC-CLIO, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440857959.
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King, Douglas. Shakespeare's World: The Tragedies: A Historical Exploration of Literature. Greenwood, 2018. http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440857959
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This analysis of primary documents allows readers to understand Shakespeare's tragedies within the context of historical issues of Renaissance England.
• Provides primary source documents for close reading of four of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies• Helps readers to relate primary source documents to Shakespeare's plays using narrative material
• Offers an introductory essay as an overview of the social and historical context of the plays
• Suggestions for further reading direct users to sources of additional information
• Presents a chronology that summarizes relevant historical events
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Table of Contents
Shakespeare's World: The Tragedies: A Historical Exploration of Literature
Author(s): King, Douglas;Contributors: King, Douglas;Abstract:This analysis of primary documents allows readers to understand Shakespeare's tragedies within the context of historical issues of Renaissance England.
• Provides primary source documents for close reading of four of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies• Helps readers to relate primary source documents to Shakespeare's plays using narrative material
• Offers an introductory essay as an overview of the social and historical context of the plays
• Suggestions for further reading direct users to sources of additional information
• Presents a chronology that summarizes relevant historical events
SortTitle: shakespeare's world: the tragedies: a historical exploration of literatureAuthor Info:Douglas J. KingauthorDouglas J. King is associate professor of English at Gannon University, where he teaches courses on Shakespeare, drama, and literature and film.
eISBN-13: 9781440857959Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440857959.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440857942Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 256Publication Date: 20180630Series: Historical Explorations of Literature- Cover Cover11
- Half Title i12
- Title iii14
- Copyright iv15
- Dedication v16
- Contents vii18
- Series Foreword xiii114
- Acknowledgments xv116
- Introduction: The Renaissance in England xvii118
- A Note on Sources xxiii124
- Chronology of the English Renaissance xxv126
- 1 Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, ca. 1597) 1130
- Historical Explorations of Romeo and Juliet 15144
- 2 Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare, ca. 1599) 59188
- Historical Explorations of Julius Caesar 70199
- 3 Hamlet (William Shakespeare, ca. 1600) 1131142
- Historical Explorations of Hamlet 1241153
- 4 Macbeth (William Shakespeare, ca. 1606) 1611190
- Historical Explorations of Macbeth 1711200
- Documenting Macbeth 1791208
- Witches, Demons, and Dark Magic 1791208
- "Remember the Porter," Jesuits, and the Gunpowder Plot 1921221
- Document: William Allen, A Briefe Historie of the Glorious Martyrdom of the Twelve Reverend Priests: Father Edmund Campion & His Companions, 1583 1941223
- Document: Henry Garnet, A Treatise of Equivocation, 1598 1971226
- Document: The Trials of Robert Winter, Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, and Sir Everard Digby, at Westminster for High Treason, Being Conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, 27 January, 1606, 1606 2001229
- Free Will versus Predestination in Renaissance England 2061235
- Suggested Readings 2151244
- Index 2171246