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Shakespeare's English Histories A Questfor Form and Genre o O o Shakespeare's English Histories A Quest for Form and Genre cioeOievAL & ReKiAissAKice TexTS & STuOies Volume 133 Shakespeare's English Histories A Quest for Form and Genre EDITED BY John W, Velz cr)6Diev2iL & ReKi2iiss3iMce xexTS & STuDies Tempe, Arizona 1997 — ® Copyright 1995 Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies State University of New York at Binghamton Second Printing ® Copyright 1997 Arizona Board of Regents for Arizona State University Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shakespeare's English histories: a quest for form and genre / John W. Velz, editor. — & & p. cm, (Medieval Renaissance texts studies; v. 133) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-86698-140-3 1. Shakespeare, William, 1584-1616—Histories. 2. Historical drama, — — English History and criticism. 3. Great Britain History—1066-1687 Historiography. 4. Kings and rulers in literature. 5. Literary form. I. Velz, John W. H. Series. PR2982.S47 1994 822.3'.3-dc20 94-3351 CIP This book is made to last. It is set in Garamond Antiqua, smythe-sewn and printed on acid-free paper to library specifications. Printed in the United States ofAmerica Contents Introduction 1 John W. Velz The Death ofJohn Talbot 11 AlexanderLeggatt King of the Hill: Ritual and Play in the Shaping oi3 Henry VI 31 Naomi Conn Liebler Marlowe's EdwardII and its Shakespearean Relatives: the Emergence of a Genre 55 Charles R. Forker "Women & fooles break off your conference": Pope's Degradations and the Form ofKingJohn 91 Joseph Candido Shakespeare's Walking Plays: Image and Form in i and 2 Henry IV 111 John P. Rumrich VI Mythoi of Brotherhood: Generic Emplotment in Henry V 143 Marsha S. Robinson Hand-me-Down-Heroics: Shakespeare's Retrospective of Popular Elizabethan Heroical Drama in Henry V 171 A. Elizabeth Ross The Resurrection of an Expired Form: Henry VIII as Sequel to RichardIII 205 Hugh M. Richmond Afterword: Notes on the Genre of the History Play 229 G. K. Hunter List of Works Cited 241 Index 257
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