The Regal Throne -- Power, Politics and Ribaldry: A Guide to Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

by Nicholas Dobson

If, advised essayist and critic William Hazlitt, we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. For if anyone profoundly understood the human condition in all its forms, it was he. Lovably drunken rogues, dysfunctional kings, cowardly preening braggarts, to nobly inspiring heroes. The remarkable series of plays engaged in under The Regal Throne moves from high political intrigue to lowlife bar-room badinage. From self-indulgent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789761646
• ISBN13: 9781789761641
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 559 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"