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E. M. W. Tillyard.
Shakespeare’s History Plays.

Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986 reissue (original edition was Chatto & Windus, 1944).
Series: Pelican Books.
ISBN 0140227229;
ISBN-13: 9780140227222.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury.
Size: 127×197×17mm.
Page count: 351pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the usual exterior wear, mild dinks & scuffs etc., nothing too severe; pages yellowed with age.


This item £6.00
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within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 242g.

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Contents: The cosmic background; The historical background; Literary background — non‑dramatic — dramatic; Retrospect; Early Shakespeare; The 1st tetralogy — Henry VI, Richard III; King John; The 2nd tetralogy — Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V; Conclusions.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 6pp
Index: yes

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