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The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History
By (Author) Barbara Hodgdon
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
822.33
Hardback
336
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
624g
In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure