William Shakespeare : Richard II
Assembles and discusses some of the criticism the play has inspired over the past four centuries. To the main themes of history, theater, politics, language, and criticism itself is added character, which is currently an unfashionable approach, but Richar
192 pages
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Introduction: Reading Richard II
Ch. 1. Richard II in 1597 and 1601
Ch. 2. Tate's Adaptation of Richard II and Neo-Classical Criticism of Shakespeare
Ch. 3. Romantic Criticism
Ch. 4. Nineteenth-Century Criticism
Ch. 5. E.M.W. Tillyard and Historical Criticism
Ch. 6. New Criticism
Ch. 7. Recent Criticism