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Author:   Neema Parvini
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780748646135

ISBN 10:   0748646132
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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"Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Texts; 1. Introduction; 2. New Historicism; James I and the Politics of Literature; 'Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne'; 3. Cultural Materialism; 'History and Ideology, Masculinity and Miscegenation: The Instance of Henry V'; Marginal Politics?; 4. An Argument Against Anti-Humanism; Nature and Nurture; Three Types of Determinism; Freedom versus Determinism and Human Agency; 5. Solutions; 6. Shakespeare's Historical and Political Thought in Context; Sixteenth-century Historiography; Three Strains of Historiography; Shakespeare's Humanist Historiography; 7. Personal Action and Agency in Henry VI; Personal Politics: 2 Henry VI; Class Politics: Cade's Rebellion; Power Politics: 3 Henry VI; 8 Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV; Cultural Historicism and the Second Tetralogy; Richard II: 'Such is the breath of kings' (1.3.208); Henry IV: 'God save the King! Will no man say ""Amen""?'; Falstaff; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index."

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Dr. Neema Parvini graduated with a First in English from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2004. He was awarded the Edmee Manning Prize, a McDonalds Scholarship, the Gertrude Schryver Prize and the Margaret Bretherton Memorial Prize for his outstanding performance as an undergraduate. He was awarded his MPhil in twentieth-century literature with Distinction from the University of Oxford in 2005. He returned to Royal Holloway in 2006, where he was awarded a Thomas Holloway Scholarship to read for his doctoral thesis on Shakespeare and historicism, and was awarded his PhD in 2010. He is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Richmond University, UK.

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