Shakespeare - Henry V

Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide summarises and assesses key interpretations, setting them in their intellectual and historical context.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements.- Notes on the Texts.- Introduction.- Making the Text: Date, Sources, Textual History.- The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Neoclassicism and Early Editions.- The Nineteenth-Century: Romantic and Victorian Interpretations.- The Early Twentieth-Century: What Makes a Good King?.- The Mid-Twentieth-Century: History, War and Epic.- The Mid to Late Twentieth Century: Ambivalence and Play.- The Later Twentieth Century and Beyond: Power, Subversion and Masculinity.- A Play for the New Millennium: Nationhood, Memory and Just War.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Woodcock
• Assisted by: Nicolas Tredell (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2008
• EAN: 9780230500808
• ISBN: 978-0-230-50080-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers Guides to Essential Cr; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C; Readers Guides to Essential Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern