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Henry V
£3.99
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Product Details
ISBN: 9781840224214
Author: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Pages: 214
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 inaugural volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing strives to incorporate recent scholarship while offering the material a careful reappraisal.
About Henry V
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has echoed through the ages, finding eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film.
- Henry himself:
- Astute and charismatic
- Led his ‘band of brothers’ to victory in the Battle of Agincourt
- Could indeed seem to be ‘this star of England’
Shakespeare's Mastery
Henry V showcases Shakespeare's renowned ability to bring new complexity to the material he adapted. This ensures that:
- Different eras can find within his work both the familiar and the strange
- The play offers a mix of the congenial and the harsh, the sustaining and the challenging
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