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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... Katherine – opens up alternative versions of history to the official version sponsored by the Chorus. While the famous victories of Henry V are central to Shakespeare's historical drama, the need to exercise discernment in responding to ...
... Katherine; and the edgy sexual banter between Burgundy and Henry (V.2.277–322) – material crucial to Henry's characterization. The 'short' version thus dispenses with much of the material that detracts from a straightforwardly heroic ...
... Katherine, his 'capital demand' (V.2.96) in the peace negotiations with France, has disturbing parallels with Tamburlaine's rape of and subsequent marriage to Zenocrate, daughter of the Sultan of Egypt. Several of the playhouses in ...
... Katherine, 'England is thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine' (V.2.236–7; added emphasis) would have encouraged the play's first audiences to draw analogies between Henry V's wars in France and the ongoing wars in Ireland and, more ...
... Katherine, which sealed the peace treaty signed at Troyes cathedral in 1420. The intervening four-year period of sustained fighting is omitted, as is Henry's second French campaign, which was triggered by the Dauphin's rejection of the ...