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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 120. )INTRODUCTION In the early modern period, the Master of the Revels-an appointed member of the Lord Chamberlain's office charged with procuring suitable entertainment for the English court-oversaw the institutional...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 140. )INTRODUCTION Likely written in 1595 or 1596, Richard II is the first installment in Shakespeare's second tetralogy of English history plays, a series that continues in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V The drama...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 52. )INTRODUCTION Chronologically the first play in Shakespeare's series of eight history plays centering on the genesis and history of the conflict between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, Richard II was written circa 1595....Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 14. )In 1593, the likely composition date of Richard III, London repertory companies faced considerable hardship. Competition for patronage and audiences was fierce; companies found it difficult to retain actors; and because...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 24. )Shakespeare's Richard II is often regarded as the work of a highly talented, yet immature dramatist still seeking to discover that brilliant poetic voice that would inform many of his later works. Written entirely in...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 111. )INTRODUCTION Written in about 1595 or perhaps somewhat later, Richard II is the first drama of Shakespeare's second tetralogy-a four-part series of English history plays that traces the rise of the House of Lancaster...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 84. )INTRODUCTION Critical studies of the iconography-visual images and symbols-in Shakespeare's plays have led to a better understanding of his works. Late sixteenthand early seventeenth-century audiences had a shared...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 39. )INTRODUCTION The first play of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, Richard II, chronicles the conflict which started the century-long War of the Roses. Richard II, however, is much more than a chronicle of events....Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Julius CaesarIn the following essay, Charney offers an overview of Julius Caesar. The critic examines the way in which Shakespeare compressed historical events, the relation of the play to Shakespeare's English history plays, and the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 81. )INTRODUCTION Richard II (ca. 1595) is the first drama of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, a sequence of chronological narratives based on events in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries that...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 81. )INTRODUCTION The enigmatic influence of fate, fortune, and the heavens on the lives of human beings forms a compelling theme in Shakespearean drama. Frequently coupled with Christian connotations, these concepts feature...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 127. )INTRODUCTION A popular play in Shakespeare's time, Richard II was written in the mid-1590s, with 1595 being its most likely composition date. It was first published in the 1597 Quarto in which it was titled The Tragedie...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 6. )DATE: Scholars generally agree that Shakespeare composed Richard I sometime during the mid-1590s, the most frequently cited date being 1595. It is unlikely that the history was written before late 1594 or early 1595,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (Vol. 22. )INTRODUCTION Elizabethan drama specifically refers to works produced during the reign of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), but the term is also commonly applied to plays written during the rule of her two immediate successors,...Found in Literature Criticism 1400-1800
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 58. )INTRODUCTION The events of Richard II form the commencement of a series of eight history plays in which Shakespeare dramatized the political struggles between the houses of York and Lancaster. Composed circa 1595, the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 101. )INTRODUCTION In Richard II (1595-97), Shakespeare candidly dramatized an incompetent monarch whose misrule results in the usurpation of his crown. The drama recounts the downfall of King Richard II, whose fickle...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 159. )INTRODUCTION Written and performed in about 1595 and published in 1597, Richard II occupies a midpoint between Shakespeare's earlier and later historical plays. It is thematically central to Shakespeare's study and...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 91. )INTRODUCTION Literary scholars generally agree that Shakespeare wrote Richard II sometime during the mid-1590s. Although the 1597 quarto classifies the drama as a tragedy, it is in fact the first in a sequence of history...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 70. )INTRODUCTION Richard II is the first play of Shakespeare's second tetralogy, a series of four plays based on English history. Unlike the other plays in the series, and despite the political and historical nature of the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism