Shakespeare the Historian

• Author(s): P. Pugliatti,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 265
• ISBN_10: 0230373747
  ISBN_13: 9780230373747
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Modern / General , History / Historiography , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a drama which portrayed history as a critical outlook on a world of problems and retrospective possibilities, rather than as unconditional belief in, or even worship of, a world of facts.