Henry V

This study examines the profound changes that twentieth-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern theatre as a dark and troubling analysis of the causes and costs of war.

List of contents

Introduction
1. This star of England: Laurence Olivier (1944)
2. We band of brothers: Terry Hands (1975)
3. Flat unraisèd spritis: BBC TV (1979)
4. Rainy marching in the painful field: Adrian Noble (1984)
5. These English monsters: Michael Bogdanov (1986)
6. Let there be sung 'Non nobis': Kenneth Branagh
7. Wish not a man from England: Henry V outside the United Kingdom
Index

About the author

James N. Loehlin is Associate Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin

Product details

• Authors: James Loehlin, James N. Loehlin, James N. Loelin, Tbd
• Assisted by: James Loehlin (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780719059445
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5944-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Series: Shakespeare in Performance (Pa
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies