King Henry VI

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Routledge
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year:
Edition: Reprint

Description: 196 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the plays progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism discusses the wide range of responses provoked by the plays handling of its historical theme, and concludes by focusing on the element of burlesque in the attempted social revolution portrayed.

ISBN: 0415026857