Shakespeare: The Histories

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Shakespeare: The Histories is written by Graham Holderness and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0312227132 (ISBN 10) and 9780312227135 (ISBN 13).

Graham Holderness provides a new treatment of Shakespeare's historical dramas by reviewing past sources in light of modern theory, thus redefining the world about which Shakespeare wrote. He begins with the social and cultural context in which these "historical" plays of chivalric antiquity and masculine virtue were written and suggests that the world depicted in the plays represented a male-dominated aristocracy preoccupied with war and violence. The book reveals antiquity's contradictions in all their glamour and glory, their absurdities and arrogance, and provides alternative contexts for reading Shakespeare's history plays.