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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... Never shackled by convention, he offered his actors the alternation between serious and comic modes from play to play, and often also within the plays themselves, that the repertory system within which he worked demanded, and which ...
... poems – 'a tower of strength', 'green-eyed jealousy', 'a foregone conclusion' – are on the lips of people who may never have read him. They have inspired composers of songs, orchestral music and operas; painters and sculptors;
... never see Henry engage in single combat with an esteemed martial adversary. Yet unlike the King of France, who delegates command on the battlefield to the Constable, Henry risks his life by leading his army into battle at Harfleur and ...
... never ceaseth to enlarge itself | Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught' (Henry VI, Part I, I.2.133–5). So it is with Henry V, the foremost exemplar of English martial glory: 'With Henry's death the English circle ends ...
... never entirely abandoned. Exhorting us one moment, cajoling and imploring us the next, the strain required to convince us that we are witnessing a heroic epic becomes palpable. In the absence of 'A kingdom for a stage, princes to act ...