The events of 'Henry V' follow from 'Henry IV, Part I' and 'II', tracing the development of young Prince Hal into a successful king.
This is the first stage history of Shakespeare's King Henry V to cover the play's theatrical life since 1599.
Introduction (Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Line Cottegnies, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) -- 1.
David Jones ' meditation on his wartime experiences , In Parenthesis , first published in 1937 , drew explicit parallels between war in the trenches and the theatre of Henry V : ' no one , I suppose , however much not given to ...
Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.
"Henry V (16 September 1386 ? 31 August 1422[1][2]) was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second English...
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It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.
It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 ...
It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.
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Even while he is still speaking the cannon are heard , and it is against a background of ' Alarums ' and soldiers carrying scalingladders that King Henry makes his rallying speech : ' Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more ...
'Craik's commentary is particularly ample and detailed... he builds up a distinct though traditionalist reading which, critically sympathetic and undogmatic, finds the play at once simple and subtle.'John Jowett, Shakespeare...
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Young King Henry of England asserts a hereditary claim to the throne of France, gathering an army and embarking on a course that will lead to one of England's greatest...
Controversial sequences are placed in the context of Elizabethan thought while the exceptional variety of language and dialect in the text is also studied. An updated reading list completes the edition.
... Henry's heroic character is not to be impaired by any unfavorable view of his attempt to conquer France. He solemnly charges the Archbishop of Canterbury to tell him the unvarnished truth concerning his right to the French crown ...