Henry V (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840224215 ISBN 13: 9781840224214

Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

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King Henry V editado por Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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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.

Biografía del autor:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) needs little introduction. As we approach the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, his reputation as one of the greatest writers in the English language is undeniable - except by those who attribute his works to other writers.

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• Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1840224215
• ISBN 13: 9781840224214
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Watts M.A. Ph.D. Professor Cedric