Chronicle Plays

Chronicle Plays Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Development Of The Genre
  • Popular Playwrights: Modifications of the Type
  • Introduction to Elizabethan History Plays
  • The Emergence of a Dramatic Genre
• Criticism: Historiography And Literature
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth in Renaissance Drama: Imagining Non-History
  • History, Tragedy, and Truth in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II
  • History and History Plays
• Criticism: Genre And Performance
  • Shakespeare's Chronicle Plays as Historical Pastoral
  • English Chronicle Contexts for Shakespeare's Death of Richard II
  • Rethinking Gender and Genre in the History Play
• Criticism: Politics And Ideology
  • Strategies of State and Political Plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII.
  • ‘Answere to this Perillous Time’: Ideological Ambivalence in The Raigne of King Edward III and the English Chronicle Plays
• Further Reading