Henry VPenguin UK, 25.2.2010 - 336 sivua 'At one and the same time the greatest of all works of English patriotism and a searing critique of warfare' Jonathan Bate |
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... French campaign. The Chronicle History omits all of the choruses (including the Prologue and Epilogue), removes or truncates the longest speeches, leaves out entire scenes and transposes others, reduces the number of roles and makes ...
William Shakespeare A. R. Humphreys. and his French wars in the 'long' Folio version of Henry V appears all the more daring if we reflect on the historical circumstances in which the playwright devised his heterodox drama. The play was ...
... French, who are reminded by the Dauphin 'that defences, musters, preparations, | Should be maintained, assembled, and collected, | As were a war in expectation' (II.4.18–20). Where the preceding histories portray England divided against ...
... French soldiers (though not the French king) are boastful or stupid; the innovative tactics used by the English to secure victory are twice noted; King Henry exhibits no sign of a conscience (troubled or otherwise) before battle; a ...
... French. Even the ardent French patriot Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc), self-proclaimed scourge of the English, acknowledges the glory he achieved through his victories in France. Yet 'Glory', she observes, 'is like a circle in the water ...