Date of Award
1951
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
English
First Advisor
Not Mentioned
Abstract
Critics, whether in the field of history or of literature, have generally agreed in their evaluation of the historical worth of Sheakespear's English history plays. Tillyard finds that the dramatist"... compressed into a popular and lively form an astonishing quantity of sheer historical fact.1 The historian, James Gairdner, proclaims him as an "unrivalled interpreter" who succeeds in presenting not only a general conception of the period from Richard II through the reign of Richard III, but nearly the entire sequence of important happenings. J. A. R. Marriott claims Shakespeare's history to be sound beyond question, and continues
Pages
126
Recommended Citation
Clink, Winifred Constance. (1951). The Historicity of Shakespeare's English Queens. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/4034
