This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire.
Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays.
Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.
About the Author
Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (ed. 1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000), as well as two other edited volumes in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series: Shakespeare's Comedies (2004) and Shakespeare's Tragedies (2004)
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Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays.
Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.
