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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