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Shakespeare's histories—containing within their crowded tableaux all of the tragedies, confusions, and beauties of human life—are not only drama of the highest order. They also serve as windows through which generations have made themselves familiar with crucial episodes in English history. For an Elizabethan England that had already emerged onto the stage of world power and was hungry to understand the sources and nature of its identity, Shakespeare provided a grandeur born of the transforming power of his art.
This volume contains Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3; Richard III; and King John. The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's work.
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Robert Pafford
reviewed Histories: Volume 1 (Everyman's Library) on August 19, 2019 Histories: Volume 1 (Everyman's Library)
Tony Tanner's introductions to 'Richard III' and 'King John' are very incisive. His introductions to the three 'Henry VI' plays are rather cursory and address them as a prelude to 'Richard III' rather than independent works in their own right. This is a shame as they are very entertaining plays that are rarely performed individually.
On the ordering of the plays in this volume - they are ordered in supposed order of composition (1H6, 2H6, 3H6, R3, KJ) rather than order of historical period (KJ, 1H6, 2H6, 3H6, R3). I would have preferred the latter order, as in the First Folio, to avoid the confusion over which sequence the 'Henry VI' plays were written in.
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