King Henry V Hardback
by William Shakespeare
Edited by Andrew (University of Reading) Gurr
Part of the The New Cambridge Shakespeare series
Hardback
Description
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:266 pages, 18 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2005
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- ISBN:9780521847926
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:266 pages, 18 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521847926
