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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... Ireland gave added resonance to plays about England's illustrious warrior king and his stunning victory at Agincourt. The performance history of Henry V has been closely tied to the fortunes of war, yet what sets Shakespeare's play ...
... Ireland. The lengthy debate by Henry and his war council over the threat of incursion posed by the Scots is now frequently omitted; however, inveterate distrust of England's 'giddy neighbour' (145) to the north and prevailing concerns ...
... Ireland on Shakespeare's account of Henry V's wars in France is more far-reaching and more diffuse. Henry V was written at the height of the Nine Years War in Ireland (1594–1603). The shift to open and sustained warfare in Ireland came ...
... Ireland', Isabel addresses to Henry (see note to V.2.12); and Henry's equally anachronistic pledge to Katherine, 'England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine' (V.2.236–7; added emphasis) would have encouraged the play's first ...
... Ireland. (The reference in the fifth chorus of Henry V to the senators and plebeians of 'th'antique Rome' fetching in 'their conquering Caesar' (26–8) and the playwright's first ever mention of Mark Antony (III.6.14) together suggest ...