The Lost Garden A View of Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays
The Lost Garden: A View of Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays by John Wilders, published by Macmillan in 1978, offers a unique exploration of Shakespeare’s history plays through the lens of ideas rather than focusing on individual works. This edition, written in English and spanning 154 pages, presents a comprehensive analysis of both English and Roman plays, examining how they reflect the dramatist’s perspective on historical events.
Readers will find that Dr. Wilders’ inquiry delves into prominent themes that emerge across Shakespeare’s history plays, providing insights into the playwright’s interpretation of history. The book addresses various subjects, including drama, literary criticism, and the historical context of Europe, particularly Great Britain from the Norman Conquest to the Late Medieval period. This approach allows for a broader understanding of Shakespeare’s work and its relevance to historical narratives.
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Of the many books on Shakespeare’s history plays, this is the first conceived in terms of ideas rather than of individual plays, and treating both the English and the Roman plays alike as evidence of the dramatist’s point of view. In his wide-ranging and original enquiry into Shakespeare’s interpretation of history, Dr. Wilders devotes each chapter to a prominent idea which can be discerned in all the history plays. — Book cover.
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