Textual Genealogies and Shakespeare's History Plays
Series: Elements in Shakespeare and Text;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 November 2025
- ISBN 9781009615686
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages75 pages
- Weight 250 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Shakespeare's texts dramatize the genealogies of authority, and his documentary histories challenge our modes of editing and interpretation.
MoreLong description:
This Element reconsiders the historical, theoretical, racial, disability, and editorial problem of genealogy by analyzing to-be-spoken genealogies in two plays in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio: the 'Salic Law' speech in Henry V and the 'seven sons' scene in Henry VI, Part Two. Both passages also exist in a significantly variant version in The Chronicle history of Henry the Fifth (1600) and The First Part of the Contention (1594). The differences between the two versions of the biological/bloodline genealogy have been central to the long-dominant theory of 'bad quartos'. That theory assumes that early modern chroniclers and playwrights shared the values of modern archival historians: they assume that Shakespeare prioritized accuracy over acting. The authors offer an alternative reading of genealogies written to be performed onstage as 'documentary effects', adapted for changing audiences in a new multimedia entertainment industry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction: biological and textual genealogies; 2. The law salic; 3. In terram salicam; 4. Contentious origins; 5. Starting points: Hall's union and York's genealogies; 6. Holinshed's chronicles and York's genealogies; 7. If my claim be good, why have I not justice?; 8. Editorial investments and documentary effects in performance; Bibliography.
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