The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 27.202 Thursday, 2 May 2016
From: Evelyn Gajowski <
Date: May 25, 2016 at 10:16:34 PM EDT
Subject: RE: SHAKSPER: Query
I’ve been watching the 2014 and now 2016 Hollow Crown; I’ve now gone twice through the first set (R2, 1 and 2 Henry IV, and Henry V) and find them superb. The best rendition of Falstaff that I’ve ever seen. To tell the truth, I’ve watched R2 three times just to watch Suchet and Lindsay Duncan at it. Now I’ve begun 1 Henry VI and I see that (as in other performances I saw on stage years ago at the Shakespeare Festival in NYC) they’ve abridged the 3 plays into 2.
I haven’t read Shakespeare criticism is a long while and find myself wanting to read far more modern pieces than the 1970s essays (good as they are) I read in graduate school.
Can anyone recommend good readable articles on these plays?
For Ellen Moody:
Hodgdon, Barbara. “Enclosing Contention: 1, 2, and 3 Henry 6. The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare’s History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. 44-99.
Howard, Jean E., and Phyllis Rackin. “1, 2, and 3 Henry 6.” Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 43-99.
Jackson, Gabriele Bernhard. “Topical Ideology: Witches, Amazons, and Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc.” ELR 18 (1988): 40-65.
Rackin, Phyllis. Stages of History: Shakespeare’s English Chronicles. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990
Stanton, Kay, “A Presentist Analysis of Joan, la Pucelle: ‘What’s past and what’s to come she can descry.’” Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare. Ed. Evelyn Gajowski. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 103-21.
Williamson, Marilyn L. “’When Men Are Rul’d by Women’: Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy.” Shakespeare Studies 19 (1987): 41-59.
All the best,
Evelyn Gajowski
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA