‘New rights we grant not, but the old declare’ : le Henry V de Roger Boyle (1664), ou Shakespeare ‘restauré’
Roger Boyle’s History of Henry V (1664) is a Restoration rewriting of Shakespeare’s famous play, itself a play about the restoration of a king into his lawful rights and ancient claims. Taking into account the latest research on the theatrical and political links between Boyle’s own agenda and Charl...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2008-10-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/726 |
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| Summary: | Roger Boyle’s History of Henry V (1664) is a Restoration rewriting of Shakespeare’s famous play, itself a play about the restoration of a king into his lawful rights and ancient claims. Taking into account the latest research on the theatrical and political links between Boyle’s own agenda and Charles II’s « restored » reign, this article aims at looking into some of the structural, stylistic and dramatic devices used by Boyle in this very successful play – all items more than often neglected, if not ignored, by the critics, showing restoration as a concept in its multifarious shapes and forms. |
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| ISSN: | 1634-0450 |