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The Henry VI plays / Stuart Hampton-Reeves Carol Chillington Rutter.
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Author
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Date published
2006
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Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry VI.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history Great Britain 1950-
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Accession number
83421661
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Class
Reading Room - 72.11/HAM
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ISBN
0719056772 (pbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
viii, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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General note: Includes RSC productions of The Wars of the Roses,1963-64, Henry VI, 1977-79, 1994-95 and 2000-1, and The Plantagenets , 1988-90 and BBC, 1960 and 1981-83, and ESC 1987-89. Summary, etc: A study of the Henry VI plays in performance, this work focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions, which have explored Shakespeare's troubling depiction of England in crisis and related those themes to contemporaneous questions of national identity.