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William Shakespeare - Henry V (Wordsworth Classics) - 9781840224214 - KRF0038270
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Henry V (Wordsworth Classics)

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Description for Henry V (Wordsworth Classics) paperback. Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages. Editor(s): Watts, Prof. Cedric, M.A., Ph.D. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.

Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his ‘band of brothers’ to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be ‘this star of England’. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branagh's film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism? Is Henry's achievement beset by irony? Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama? Henry V demonstrates Shakespeare's acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the harsh, the sustaining and the challenging.

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840224214
SKU
KRF0038270
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