Richard II.

Richard II.

Before 1790, the criticism of Richard II is fragmentary and this volume takes up the major tradition of criticism, including Malone, Lamb, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Chambers, Boas, Brandes, Yeats, Schelling, Swinburne, A.C. Bradley, Saintsbury, and Masefield.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forker, Charles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2000.
Series:Shakespeare, the critical tradition.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > King Richard II.
Richard > II, > King of England, > 1367-1400 > In literature.
Richard > II, > King of England, > 1367-1400
King Richard II (Shakespeare, William)
Kings and rulers in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Kings and rulers in literature
Literature
Middle Ages in literature
Great Britain > In literature.
Great Britain
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 EDWARD CAPELL, various notes on Richard II, 1780; 2 EDMOND MALONE and others, supplementary remarks on Richard II, 1780; 3 THOMAS DAVIES, on the deposition scene in Richard II, 1784; 4 EDMOND MALONE, edition of Shakespeare, 1790; 5 JOSEPH RITSON, Shakespeare's part-authorship of Richard II and other notes, 1793; 6 GEORGE STEEVENS, notes on Richard II, 1793; 7 GEORGE CHALMERS, on the date and political significance of Richard II, 1799; 8 CHARLES DIBDIN, Richard II inferior to Richard III, 1800.
  • 9 FRANCIS DOUCE, Richard II and the memento mori tradition, 180710 CHARLES LAMB, Marlowe's Edward II compared to Richard II, 1808; 11 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, on Richard II and the history play, 1813; 12 WILLIAM HAZLITT, a critique of Edmund Kean as Richard II, 1815; 13 RICHARD WROUGHTON, advertisement of an adaptation of Richard II, 1815; 14 A.W. VON SCHLEGEL, Richard II and the unity of Shakespeare's history plays, 1815; 15 NATHAN DRAKE, a sympathet.

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