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See Chronology in Chapter 4, “Shakespeare: the Tragedies.”
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General: Shakespeare’s history plays
Berry, Edward. “Twentieth Century Shakespeare Criticism: the Histories.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies ed. Stanley Wells, pp. 249–56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Bloom, Harold (ed.). William Shakespeare: Histories and Poems. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
Dutton, Richard, and Howard, Jean (eds). A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works: the Histories. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Hattaway, Michael (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Wikander, M. H. The Play of Truth and State: Historical Drama from Shakespeare to Brecht. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Internet resources
The Folger Shakespeare Library <http://www.folger.edu/welcome/htm>
Shakespeare in the Classroom <http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators>
William Shakespeare and the Internet <http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/>
Teaching Shakespeare: two recent aids to context and strategy
Fernie, Ewan, Wray, Ramona, Thornton Burnett, Mark, and McManus, Clare (eds). Reconceiving the Renaissance: a Critical Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005.
Palfrey, Simon. Doing Shakespeare. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2005.
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Ruiter, D. (2007). Shakespeare: the Histories. In: Hiscock, A., Hopkins, L. (eds) Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593206_7
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