King Henry V
2nd Edition
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Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: Andrew Gurr, University of Reading
- Date Published: October 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521847926
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For this updated edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play, Andrew Gurr has added a new section to his introduction which considers recent critical and stage interpretations. He analyzes the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual and demonstrates how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's action. Gurr analyzes the play's more controversial sequences in the context of Elizabethan thought, in particular, the studies of the laws and morality of war written in the years before Henry V. An updated reading list completes the edition. First Edition Hb (1992) 0-521-22154-4 First Edition Pb (1992) 0-521-29369-3
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: October 2005
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521847926
- length: 266 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- 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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