Henry V

A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Theatre, Stagecraft, Drama
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Author: Dr Kevin Ewert ISBN: 9781137019356
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication: August 4, 2006
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Dr Kevin Ewert
ISBN: 9781137019356
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication: August 4, 2006
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

Under cover of being a rousing adventure story, Shakespeare's Henry V manages to become something much more open and complex - a play whose possible meanings point in many directions, often all at once.

In this Handbook, chapters on critical assessment and performance history take the reader in some of those many directions - from unproblematic reflection of an Elizabethan World Picture to cultural materialist reappraisal of how power works, and from Olivier's brilliant technicolor pageant to the National Theatre's 2003 reengagement with the play at the start of the Iraq war. Focusing on stage directions, implied action in the dialogue, and various production choices available at key moments, a theatrically aware commentary encourages the imagining of a physical narrative where the play's meanings and our responses are shaped by the constantly shifting stage action.

Multiple, competing voices and often daring structural choices make Henry V an invigorating occasion for theatre. With a fresh and engaging style, this Handbook explores all the spiky, disruptive and debatable aspects of a tale Shakespeare could have told in a simple, straightforward and heroic fashion, but chose not to.

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Under cover of being a rousing adventure story, Shakespeare's Henry V manages to become something much more open and complex - a play whose possible meanings point in many directions, often all at once.

In this Handbook, chapters on critical assessment and performance history take the reader in some of those many directions - from unproblematic reflection of an Elizabethan World Picture to cultural materialist reappraisal of how power works, and from Olivier's brilliant technicolor pageant to the National Theatre's 2003 reengagement with the play at the start of the Iraq war. Focusing on stage directions, implied action in the dialogue, and various production choices available at key moments, a theatrically aware commentary encourages the imagining of a physical narrative where the play's meanings and our responses are shaped by the constantly shifting stage action.

Multiple, competing voices and often daring structural choices make Henry V an invigorating occasion for theatre. With a fresh and engaging style, this Handbook explores all the spiky, disruptive and debatable aspects of a tale Shakespeare could have told in a simple, straightforward and heroic fashion, but chose not to.

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