Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Trans. Hoenselaars Hardcover<|

Shakespeare's History PlaysPerformance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad\nAuthor(s): Ton Hoenselaars, Dennis Kennedy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521829021, 978-0521829021\nSynopsis\nThis 2004 volume, with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy, addresses a range of attitudes to Shakespeare's English history plays in Britain and abroad from the early seventeenth century to the present day. It concentrates on the play texts as well as productions, translations and adaptations of them. The essays explore the multiple points of intersection between the English history they recount and the experience of British and other national cultures, establishing the plays as genres not only relevant to the political and cultural history of Britain but also to the history of nearly every nation worldwide. The plays have had a rich international reception tradition but critics and theatre historians .