Shakespeare Survey

When Harold Jenkins wrote his survey of criticism of the English history plays from 1900 to 1951 for Shakespeare Survey 6 (Cambridge, 1953) two critical approaches were dominant: firstly the reading of them in the light of the historical thesis which they were seen to present and which was particularly associated with E. M. W. Tillyard's Shakespeare's English History Plays (1944), and secondly close analysis of their style and imagery.