Histories: Volume 2 (Everyman's Library)

Histories: Volume 2 (Everyman's Library)

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<p>William Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order, these plays represent the Elizabethan historical drama in its full glory. And thanks to parts one and two of <i>Henry IV </i>our literature is graced€"in the figure of the dissolute and boastful knight Sir John Falstaff€"with one of the greatest comic creations in the history of the stage.<br><br> This volume contains <i>Richard II; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; Henry V; </i>and <i>Henry VIII. </i>The texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare€s life and times, a helpful family tree of the Houses of Lancaster and York, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare€s oeuvre.<br></p>