ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315018577/389c1d69-bf6d-4f43-8610-58d40a6d0a1a/content/Inline_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> When Shakespeare's editors arranged his plays in the First Folio, they grouped them into Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, putting the ten plays dealing with English history, and only those, into the Histories classification. The why of this arrangement implies definition. What was a history play in the thinking of the editors? Many scholars have discussed the genre without having agreed upon a definition.
