Henry V
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Henry V
（Shakespeare in performance）
Manchester University Press, 2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175) and index
First published 1996
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis of the causes and costs of war. The book details the theatrical innovations and political insights that have turned one of Shakespeare's most traditional-bound plays into one of his most popular and provocative.
Henry V gives details analyses of several important modern productions. Beginning with a consideration of the play's political significance in Elizabethan London, the book goes on the reveal its subsequent reinvention, both as patriotic pageant and anti-war manifesto. Individual chapters consider important productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other British and North American companies, as well as the landmark film versions.
A compelling account of the theatrical revolution that has transformed one of Shakespeare's most challenging plays. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. This star of England: Laurence Olivier (1944)
2. We band of brothers: Terry Hands (1975)
3. Flat unraised spritis: BBC TV (1979)
4. Rainy marching in the painful field: Adrian Noble (1984)
5. These English monsters: Michael Bogdanov (1986)
6. Let there be sung 'Non nobis': Kenneth Branagh
7. Wish not a man from England: Henry V outside the United Kingdom
Index -- .
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