The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History

Barbara Hodgdon

Published by Princeton University Press 1991

The End Crowns All

Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History

Barbara Hodgdon

Volume 1162 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400861767

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In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure as a developing process in which narrative structures, generic signs, and rhetorical conventions play contributory, and often contradictory, roles, she also considers how theatrical representations interpret, or reinterpret, closural features to recuperate and redirect their social energies. By giving special emphasis to theatrical reproduction as a form of textuality and to the intertextual relations between drama and other forms of history writing, Hodgdon situates performance as a type of new historicism and shows how theatrical productions, like critical discourse, participate in cultural work. Through a study of playtexts and selected performance texts, she negotiates between the critical and theatrical guises of Shakespeare to assess how past and present-day theatrical practice has appropriated his work to serve particular institutional and social practices.

Originally published in 1991.

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CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
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CHAPTER 1. "Chorus to This History" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER 2. Fashioning Obedience: King John's "True Inheritors" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
CHAPTER 3. Enclosing Contention: 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
CHAPTER 4. "The Coming On of Time": Richard III Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
CHAPTER 5. "If I Turn Mine Eyes upon Myself": Richard II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
CHAPTER 6. "Let the End Try the Man": 1 and 2 Henry IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
CHAPTER 7. "A Full and Natural Close, Like Music": Henry V Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
CHAPTER 8. Uncommon Women and Others: Henry VIII`s "Maiden Phoenix" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
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