"'How can you say to me I am a King?': New Historicism and its (Re)interpretations of the Design of Kingly Figures in Shakespeare's History Plays"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbl2556/
Author:
	Dale, James.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2021
Publication Information:
	Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 23, no. 38 (2021): 143–158. (https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/8735)
DOI:
	10.18778/2083-8530.23.09
Annotation:
	Explores how New Historicism as critical movement transformed scholarly attitudes towards Shakespeare’s history plays, focusing on conceptions of kingship and monarchical power. Deploys Stephen Greenblatt’s notion of “subversion” and “containment” in relation to kingly power to offer reading of Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. English summary, online.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Greenblatt, Stephen
Tags:
	1 & 2 Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbl2556