{"product_id":"histories-vol-2-volume-2-introduction-by-tony-tanner-9780679436508","title":"Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order, these plays represent the Elizabethan historical drama in its full glory. And thanks to parts one and two of \u003ci\u003eHenry IV \u003c\/i\u003eour literature is graced--in the figure of the dissolute and boastful knight Sir John Falstaff--with one of the greatest comic creations in the history of the stage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume contains \u003ci\u003eRichard II; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; Henry V; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHenry VIII. \u003c\/i\u003eThe texts, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, a helpful family tree of the Houses of Lancaster and York, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare's oeuvre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679436508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.31h x 5.29w x 1.55d","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45351271563445,"sku":"9780679436508","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3fcd680f-7e4f-46ba-9b12-431dece4f24a.jpg?v=1746540868","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/histories-vol-2-volume-2-introduction-by-tony-tanner-9780679436508","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}