San Antonio College Library

"This present study was undertaken in order to disclose the relationship existing between the Chronicles of John Froissart and historical literature in England up to the seventeenth century when the Tudor Chronicle plays vanished from the stage."--Preface

Genealogical charts and a discussion of Shakespeare's art and time precede summaries of ten plays treated in historical sequence.

"The Shakespearean Kings is an essay at once in the text of thirteen of the plays, history, and politics as an applied art-- an art which is not, after all, very different now than it was in the Sixteenth Century. While urging the essential integrity of the plays and the poet, the author does not try to make Shakespeare fit any of political or religious doctrines either of his age or of our own. In fact Shakespeare tested, and tired of, far more doctrines...