A study of the structures of Shakespeare's three parts of Henry VI
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"The purpose of this study is, therefore, to isolate and describe Shakespeare’s achievement in each of the Henry VI plays. The emphasis throughout will be upon the Shakespearean structure, the "new organ of thought" resulting from the imposition "upon a body of historical data a controlling idea" which shapes the play. Chapter I will define the Shakespearean history play in the light of recent investigations into the Elizabethan background and literary traditions. Chapter II will deal with the special problems relating to the Henry VI plays alone. Chapters III, IV, and V will offer a structural analysis of each of the plays in isolation. The study will conclude with a re-evaluation, based upon the previous analyses, of the quality of the three parts of Henry VI and with some suggestions concerning Shakespeare's experiments with structural techniques in the three plays. Throughout this study the influence will be obvious, even where not duly noted, of probably the four most important books so far written relevant to Shakespeare’s histories: E. M. W. Tillyard, Shakespeare's History Plays (1945); L. B. Campbell, Shakespeare's "Histories" (1947); Irving Ribner, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare (1957); and especially M. M. Reese, The Cease of Majesty: A Study of Shakespeare's History Plays (1961). In addition, the conception of the structural principles underlying Shakespeare’s histories which first motivated this study has been lent substantial authority by the already quoted work of H. T. Price, Construction to Shakespeare (1951)."--Introduction.
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