Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Brown, Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Adaption and Performance SP - 193-204 ID - bbbc629 T1 - "'My dream was lengthened after life': Ghosts in Michael Boyd's History Cycle" AU - Wilkinson, Kate PY - 2013 DA - 2013 KW - ghost KW - providence LA - English AB - Contends that Michael Boyd's conception of history was providential and that his productions staged the conflict between the political pragmatism of Shakespeare's history cycles and the more medieval spiritualism of his earlier plays, using the ghosts of Richard III to represent Nicholas Grene's idea of "Machiavellian Providentialism." ER -