Alarums and Defeats: Henry VI on Tour
Hampton-Reeves, Stuart
Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999)
Abstract
The importance of provincial touring to early modern performance culture has undergone a substantial re-assessment in recent years, opening up the possibility of touring as a new context for criticism. Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI is thought to have been toured by Pembroke’s Men in the early 1590s. This paper suggests that the play was written to be toured and attempts a reading of the play’s treatment of regional and social identity which is located in a provincial, touring milieu. The English Shakespeare’s Company’s late 1980s tour of the play (the first tour since the 1590s) affords an opportunity to explore how the play ‘works’ in a touring context.
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