Talk:History (theatrical genre)

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Changes to Shakespeare section of this page
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Grad student here in Early Modern lit, editing this page for a course.

I imported some of the material from the "Shakespearean History" main article since it seemed to express the same basic ideas more clearly, more thoroughly, and also more concisely. I'm not sure whether this repetition between the two articles violates any of the Wikipedia spirit - though I assume they won't remain similar indefinitely as people make separate edits to both articles. I also folded in some

I removed the assertion that the politics of Shakespeare's history plays seemed more royalist than other history plays at the time because there did not seem to be any current scholarly evidence for this claim.

--Liamthomasdaley (talk) 20:36, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Changes to "[Early Modern] Origins" and "Early Modern" now "Restoration and Eighteenth Century"
The original title "Early Modern" seemed misleading since the section deals primarily with theater the Restoration of 1660, and the term "early modern" usually refers to the period immediately before that (the Tudors and early Stuarts)

To this section I added a few plays from the restoration and one from the eighteenth century, explaining why these are not "English History" plays in the same way as Shakespeaere's but are still plays which dramatize historical events and so "History" plays in the broader sense.

Following this, I changed the heading "Origins" to "Early Modern Origins" since this section does address plays of the Tudor and early Stuart period. --Liamthomasdaley (talk) 21:42, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

"Background" section combined with "Early Modern Origins"
I combined the "Background" section with the "Early Modern Origins" section because they appeared to be talking about the same topics. I also added citations to some of the material that was already there - specifically material that was taken from Irving Ribner's book but not clearly cited. I also added quotations from two more recent scholarly works on the topic. Finally, I added an image to this section - the title page from an early printed version of Marlow's Edward II play.

Incidentally, I also removed one of two images from the "Precursors" section. The two images were extremely similar and seemed to visually over-represent material which does not really appear to be the main focus of this article.--Liamthomasdaley (talk) 01:33, 1 November 2017 (UTC)