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Memory, Text, Affect: The Deaths of Gloucester

Loughnane, Rory (2023) Memory, Text, Affect: The Deaths of Gloucester. In: Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 220-237. E-ISBN 978-1-00-904711-1. (doi:10.1017/9781009047111.016) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:101703)

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Abstract

The version of 2 Henry VI most people know, read, and study is the play printed in 1623 Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. There is, however, an early alternative version of the play, about one third shorter in length, that was printed in quarto format in 1594, entitled The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, and reprinted in 1600 and 1619. The provenance of this shorter text, and its relationship to the Folio text, has provoked much debate. First focusing on the variant versions of a speech about lineage in early quartos and Folio, while drawing in consideration of practices of coauthorship and revision, the chapter then turns to how the death of Gloucester is represented in the various versions. The chapter considers how the different textual versions of this English history play convey also a different emotional register that affects both character and situation.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1017/9781009047111.016
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
Depositing User: Rory Loughnane
Date Deposited: 15 Jun 2023 08:55 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2023 07:48 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/101703 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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