King Henry V
2nd Edition
Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: Andrew Gurr, University of Reading
- Date Published: July 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521612647
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second edition of King Henry V, Shakespeare's most celebrated war play, Andrew Gurr has added a new section to his introduction in which he considers recent criticism and important contemporary productions of the play. Concentrating in particular on 'secret' versus 'official' readings of the work, he analyses Shakespeare's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual, and shows how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's dramatic action. 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.
Read more- Updated edition, containing a new introductory section which analyses recent critical and stage interpretations, with particular attention to the 'secret' versus 'official' readings of the play
- Places the play's more controversial sequences in the context of Elizabethan thought Considers the exceptional variety of language and dialect in the play
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521612647
- length: 263 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.427kg
- contains: 18 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: The play and its date
The coercive Chorus
Context and sources
Structure and language
Staging and stage history
Recent critical and stage interpretations
Note on the text
List of characters
The Play
Textual analysis
Appendices: Theatre sources: The Famous Victories
Historical Sources: Holinshed's Chronicles
Background sources: Richard Crompton, The Mansion of Magnanimitie
Reading list.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Order and Chaos in Shakespeare
- Seminar in Major Authors
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