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"Richard II"
Margaret Healy
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Description for "Richard II"
Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work. Num Pages: 128 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 118 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
Deeply immersed in the politics of kingship, Richard II was undoubtedly one of the most controversial plays to be staged in the 1050s. This book locates Richard II firmly amidst the late-sixteenth-century heated debates between champions of absolute monarchy and advocates of a more limited, democratic style of government; debates which culminated in the 1640s in the deposition and killing of an actual monarch – Charles I. Outlining both conservative and more recent radical approaches, the political impact of the play at the time of the Essex rebellion through to the 1680s is considered. Analysis of the complex language, symbolism, ... Read more
Deeply immersed in the politics of kingship, Richard II was undoubtedly one of the most controversial plays to be staged in the 1050s. This book locates Richard II firmly amidst the late-sixteenth-century heated debates between champions of absolute monarchy and advocates of a more limited, democratic style of government; debates which culminated in the 1640s in the deposition and killing of an actual monarch – Charles I. Outlining both conservative and more recent radical approaches, the political impact of the play at the time of the Essex rebellion through to the 1680s is considered. Analysis of the complex language, symbolism, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Writers & Their Work
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746308455
SKU
V9780746308455
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99-50
About Margaret Healy
Margaret Healy is Lecturer in Literature at The Open University where she is responsible for developing the Renaissance interdisciplinary degree and the new Shakespeare Text and Performance course. She is currently writing Fictions of Disease: Representations of Bodily Disorder in Early Modern Writings.
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