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Ingrid Kauler, 11B. Shakespeare’s Histories. Shakespeare’s histories. First Folio Ten plays based on the lives of English kings From John to Henry VIII English history plays - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES
Ingrid Kauler, 11B
SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES First Folio Ten plays based on the
lives of English kings From John to Henry VIII English history plays Plays that depict older
historical figures such as Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Julius Caesar, and the legendary King Lear were not included
SOURCES Primary source was
Holinshed's Chronicles (1587)
The anonymous history play The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth (1598)
Hall's The Union of the Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and York (1542).
SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES
King Henry IV Part 1 - 1597-98 first performed. It was first printed in 1598 King Henry IV Part 2 - 1597-98 first performance. It was first printed in 1600 King Henry V - 1598-99 first performed. It was first printed in 1600 King Henry VI Part 1 - 1592 March 3 produced. It was first printed in 1594 King Henry VI Part 2 - 1592-93 first performed. It was first printed in 1594 King Henry VI Part 3 - 1592-93 first performed. It was first printed in 1623
(First Folio) King Henry VIII - 1612-13 first performance. It was first printed in 1623 (First
Folio) King John - 1596-97 first performed. It was first printed in 1623 (First Folio) Richard II - 1601 February 7 First Recorded production. It was first printed in
1597 Richard III - 1600-01 first recorded performance. It was first printed in 1597
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
King John Richard II Henry IV, Part 1
and Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Parts 1,
2 and 3 Richard III Henry VIII
SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES
Thomas Stothard's illustration of the death of Prince Edward (1824)
SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES
English actor David Garrick as Richard III Henry VIScene in the Temple Garden by John Pettie
IMPORTANCE
Tudor propaganda Show the dangers of civil war
and celebrate the founders of the Tudor dynasty
Richard III, the last member of the rival house of York is described as an evil monster
"that bottled spider, that foul hunchback'd toad”
Biased criticism of their own country
Wars of the Roses
SOURCES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_history http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl339/
history.html http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/william-
shakespeare-histories.htm http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/564559/ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/
eb/Elizabeth_I_in_coronation_robes.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
5/50/Shakespeare%27s_King_John_at_Drury_Lane_Theatre.jpg
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