shakespeare’s history plays - clarkson univer..PPTVIP

Shakespeare’s History Plays Shakespeare’s Histories Why did Shakespeare write history plays? National Identity and Mythology Historiography has changed Why did he write them in the 1590s? Publication of popular chronicle histories Defeat of the Spanish Armada Succession Question Analogous contemporary issues What period of history interested him in the 1590s? Hundred Years Wars (1337-1453) Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) What history plays did he write? How did he interpret that history? Why History Plays? National Identity and Mythology The Tudor Myth from Henry VII End of civil war between