Shakespeare the Historian

Pugliatti, P.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1995-12-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333633298

DOI: 10.1057/9780230373747

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 265