SHAKESPEARE AND THE STAGING OF ENGLISH HISTORY

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the bright and fresh dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

'This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays. Through close analysis of stage practice and stage picture, the book builds a profile of the kinds of writing and staging that characterize a Shakespearean history play and that differentiate one history play from another' (publisher's blurb).