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Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

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This revised edition of King Richard II: Critical Tradition increases our the play was received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. Updated with a new introduction providing a survey of critical responses to Richard II since the 1990s to the present day, this volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The updated introduction offers an overview of recent criticism on the play in relation to feminist theory, queer theory, performance theory and ecocriticism. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Featuring criticism by A.C. Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, this volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.

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Publisher
The Arden Shakespeare
Year
2022
ISBN
9781350287211
Edition
2
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism of Shakespeare
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. General editor’s preface
  7. General editors’ preface to the revised editions
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. Introduction to the revised edition
  11. Chapter 1: Edward Capell, various notes on Richard II: 1780
  12. Chapter 2: Edmond Malone and others, supplementary remarks on Richard II: 1780
  13. Chapter 3: Thomas Davies, on the deposition scene in Richard II: 1784
  14. Chapter 4: Edmond Malone, edition of Shakespeare: 1790
  15. Chapter 5: Joseph Ritson, Shakespeare’s part-authorship of Richard II and other notes: 1793
  16. Chapter 6: George Steevens, notes on Richard II: 1793
  17. Chapter 7: George Chalmers, on the date and political significance of Richard II: 1799
  18. Chapter 8: Charles Dibdin, Richard II inferior to Richard III: 1800
  19. Chapter 9: Francis Douce, Richard II and the memento mori tradition: 1807
  20. Chapter 10: Charles Lamb, Marlowe’s Edward II compared to Richard II: 1808
  21. Chapter 11: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, on Richard II and the history play: 1813
  22. Chapter 12: William Hazlitt, a critique of Edmund Kean as Richard II: 1815
  23. Chapter 13: Richard Wroughton, advertisement of an adaptation of Richard II: 1815
  24. Chapter 14: A.W. von Schlegel, Richard II and the unity of Shakespeare’s history plays: 1815
  25. Chapter 15: Nathan Drake, a sympathetic view of Richard II: 1817
  26. Chapter 16: William Hazlitt, characterization in Richard II: 1817
  27. Chapter 17: John Hamilton Reynolds, the poetry of Richard II and the other histories: 1817
  28. Chapter 18: Augustine Skottowe, Richard II and the truth of history: 1824
  29. Chapter 19: George Daniel, prefatory remarks on Richard II: 1831
  30. Chapter 20: Henry Nelson Coleridge, another version of Coleridge on Richard II: 1836
  31. Chapter 21: Henry Hallam, on the scene of Aumerle’s pardon in Richard II: 1837–39
  32. Chapter 22: Thomas Campbell, general comments on Richard II: 1838
  33. Chapter 23: Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, Richard II and history: 1838
  34. Chapter 24: Charles Knight, the pictorial edition of Richard II: 1838
  35. Chapter 25: John Payne Collier, on the existence of two plays on Richard II’s reign: 1842
  36. Chapter 26: Hermann Ulrici, kingship and the morality of Richard II: 1846
  37. Chapter 27: Gulian C. Verplanck, critical remarks on Richard II : 1847
  38. Chapter 28: Hartley Coleridge, a comment on Richard II: 1851
  39. Chapter 29: François P. G. Guizot, history, character, and divine right in Richard II: 1852
  40. Chapter 30: Henry N. Hudson, historical truth and characterization in Richard II: 1852
  41. Chapter 31: Henry Reed, history as tragedy in Richard II: 1855
  42. Chapter 32: William Watkiss Lloyd, the political morality of Richard II : 1856
  43. Chapter 33: Richard Grant White, Richard II, Daniel’s Civil Wars, and the play’s date: 1859
  44. Chapter 34: G.G. Gervinus, the characterization and artistry of Richard II: 1863
  45. Chapter 35: John A. Heraud, the play’s divided authorship and Shakespeare’s attitude to divine right: 1865
  46. Chapter 36: Henry N. Hudson, further observations on Richard II: 1872
  47. Chapter 37: Richard Simpson, Richard II and Elizabethan politics: 1874
  48. Chapter 38: Edward Dowden, the immaturity of Richard II and the realism of Bolingbroke: 1875
  49. Chapter 39: A. C. Swinburne, an unsympathetic view of Richard II: 1875
  50. Chapter 40: F.J. Furnivall, the topicality of Richard II and the character of its protagonist: 1877
  51. Chapter 41: Denton J. Snider, Richard II and the right of revolution:  1877
  52. Chapter 42: P.A. Daniel, time problems in Richard II:  1879
  53. Chapter 43: Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare’s concern with costume in Richard II: 1885
  54. Chapter 44: A.W. Verity, Marlowe’s influence on Richard II: 1886
  55. Chapter 45: Richard Grant White, Richard III and Richard II compared: 1886
  56. Chapter 46: Havelock Ellis, on the inferiority of Richard II to Marlowe’s Edward II: 1887
  57. Chapter 47: Frank A. Marshall, the theatrical weakness of Richard II: 1888
  58. Chapter 48: Walter Pater, ritual and lyricism in Richard II: 1889
  59. Chapter 49: P. A. Daniel, a nonpolitical reason for omitting the deposition scene from the early quartos of Richard II: 1890
  60. Chapter 50: Cyril Ransome, character disclosure and dramatic symmetry in Richard II: 1890
  61. Chapter 51: E.K. Chambers, the artistry of Richard II: 1891
  62. Chapter 52: C.H. Herford, miscellaneous comments on Richard II: 1893
  63. Chapter 53: Beverley E. Warner, characterization and history in Richard II: 1894
  64. Chapter 54: Barrett Wendell, Richard II as an archaic masterpiece: 1894
  65. Chapter 55: Frederick S. Boas, diseased will and sentimentalism in Richard II : 1896
  66. Chapter 56: Georg Brandes, Edward II and Richard II contrasted: 1898
  67. Chapter 57: C.E. Montague, on F.R. Benson’s portrayal of Richard II: 1899
  68. Chapter 58: Sidney Lee, Benson’s Richard II and the acting of minor roles:  1900 
  69. Chapter 59: W.B. Yeats, Richard II and Henry V as emblems of refinement and vulgarity: 1901
  70. Chapter 60: Frederick S. Boas, the relation of Woodstock to Richard II: 1902
  71. Chapter 61: Felix E. Schelling, Shakespeare’s independence in Richard II: 1902
  72. Chapter 62: H.F. Prevost Battersby, on Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s Richard II: 1903 
  73. Chapter 63: Richard G. Moulton, Richard II, the divine right of kings, and the pendulum of history: 1903
  74. Chapter 64: A. C. Swinburne, an iconoclastic view of Richard II: 1903
  75. Chapter 65: A.C. Bradley, on Richard II and tragedy: 1904
  76. Chapter 66: Stopford A. Brooke, purgation through tragic suffering in Richard II:  1905 
  77. Chapter 67: Morton Luce, Richard II a disappointing failure: 1905
  78. Chapter 68: George Pierce Baker, Richard II and the weaknesses and strengths of the chronicle play: 1907
  79. Chapter 69: Sir Walter Raleigh, weakness and the philosophic strain in the character of Richard II : 1907
  80. Chapter 70: George Saintsbury, Richard II as an imperfect but rhetorically unique drama: 1907
  81. Chapter 71: Ashley H. Thorndike, structure, style, and characterization in Richard II: 1908
  82. Chapter 72: A. C. Bradley, further comments on Richard II: 1909
  83. Chapter 73: G.S. Gordon, patriotism and the absence of moral order in Richard II: 1909
  84. Chapter 74: Charlotte Porter, the subtle artistry of Act I: 1910
  85. Chapter 75: C.F. Tucker Brooke, miscellaneous comments on Richard II: 1911
  86. Chapter 76: John Masefield, Richard II as a tragedy of double treachery: 1911
  87. Chapter 77: Hardin Craig, from an introduction to Richard II: 1912
  88. Chapter 78: Ivor B. John, from an introduction to Richard II: 1912
  89. Chapter 79: Brander Matthews, dramaturgical weakness and psychological strength in Richard II: 1913
  90. Chapter 80: Lacy Collison-Morley, Alessandro Manzoni’s anti-classical perspective on Richard II: 1916
  91. Chapter 81: Wilhelm Creizenach, miscellaneous comments on Richard II: 1916
  92. Chapter 82: J.A.R. Marriott, historical context and Richard II as a tragedy of political amateurism: 1918
  93. Notes
  94. A select bibliography
  95. Index