Shakespeare’s histories

Kätlin LillXI A

William Shakespeare

•38 plays•154 sonnets•two long narrative poems•several other poems

The First Folio•Published in

1623•14Comedies•10Histories•12Tragedies

The historiesKing JohnRichard IIHenry IV Part I

Henry IV Part II

Henry V

Henry V I Part I

Henry V I Part II

Henry V I Part III

Richard IIIHenry VIII

Saurces and politics

•Raphael Holinshed's Chronicle of English history•Shakespeare was living under the reign of Elizabeth I.•Celebration of the Tudor dynasty.

Richard III •Wrote around the year 1591.•Richard is portrayed as a self-professed villain.•Richard reigned 1483-1485

Henry V•Written in 1599•The Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War (1415)•final part of a tetralogy

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