ENGL 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tetralogy, Elizabethan Era, Philip Sidney

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Dramatic shift of tone from much ado about nothing to this play. Removing from domestic sexual problems to the largely political. There are still similarities, henry v is a political drama but also a romantic one. In the early 1590"s shakespeare wrote a set of 4 history plays this set is called shakespeare"s first tetralogy. Richard ii is the first play in his second tetralogy. Although the second was written later, is covers an earlier historical period from 1397 to 1421. From the events surrounding richard the ii reign through henry the 4ths reign till henry iv 1413-1422. Leading up to this play, are three other history plays, richard ii and the first and second parts of henry the 4th. All of the history plays in the second tetralogy can stand on their owns. Richard ii dramatizes the last several years of his reign.

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