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Shakespeare the Historian

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  • © 1996

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  1. Paola Pugliatti

    1. University of Florence, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 1-12

  3. History ‘with Parted Eye’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Meaning, the Author and the Reader

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 15-28

    3. The Tudor Historians’ Dialogue with the Dead

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 29-41

    4. Perspectivism

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 42-59

    5. The Contribution of the Theatrical Medium

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 60-68

    6. The Fictionalisation of History and the Issue of Verisimilitude

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 69-74

  4. Cross-Examining Political Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. The Scribbled Form of Authority in King John

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 77-101

    3. Time, Space and the Instability of History in the Henry IV Sequence

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 102-136

    4. The Strange Tongues of Henry V

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 137-153

    5. Jack Cade: An Unpopular Popular Hero

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 154-177

  5. Thresholds and Margins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. ‘Bastards and else’: Less than History

      • Paola Pugliatti
      Pages 181-245

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 246-265
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About this book

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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  • University of Florence, UK

    Paola Pugliatti

About the author

PAOLA PUGLIATTI is Professor of English at the University of Florence. She was previously Chair of English at the University of Pisa, and has taught at Bologna and at the University of Messina. She has written extensively on the metaphysical poets, Shakespeare, Joyce and modernism, the theory of the novel and literary genres. In 1993 she was appointed member of the Advisory Board of the International Shakespeare Association, and has been invited to read papers at several conferences, both in Italy and elsewhere. For the last five years she has been directing a students' theatre group in Florence whose productions include Shakespeare's Henry VIII, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice.

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