King Henry V: A Critical Reader

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play''s critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students'' further reading about the play in print and online This volume offers a thought-provoking guide to King Henry V , surveying the play''s rich critical and performance history, with a particular emphasis on its reputation in France as well as Britain and the US. A chapter on non-Anglophone reactions to the play, alongside new essays on British identity, religion, medieval warfare and the questioning of Henry V''s heroism, open up ground-breaking perspectives on the play. The volume also includes discussions of King Henry V ''s rich theatrical and filmic heritage, and a guide to learning and teaching resources and how these might be integrated into effective pedagogic strategies in the classroom.>

About the author

Karen Britland studied English at Lincoln College Oxford and teaches Literature at Keele Univeristy. Recent publishing work: Assistant Editor on the Cambridge University Press Complete Works of Ben Jonson and is editing James Shirley's The Imposture for the Oxford University Press Complete Works of James Shirley.

Karen Britland is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Britland, Line Cottegnies, Line (Sorbonne Universite Cottegnies, Line Britland Cottegnies
• Assisted by: Karen Britland (Editor), Line Cottegnies (Editor), Line (Sorbonne Universite Cottegnies (Editor), Cottegnies Line (Editor), Andrew Hiscock (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781474280105
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-8010-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides; Arden Early Modern Drama Guide; Arden Early Modern Drama Guides; Arden Early Modern Drama Guide
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights