The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its
up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series
features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays
and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of
new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this second
edition of King Henry V, Shakespeare's most celebrated war play,
Andrew Gurr has added a new section to his introduction in which he
considers recent criticism and important contemporary productions
of the play. Concentrating in particular on 'secret' versus
'official' readings of the work, he analyses Shakespeare's double
vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual,
and shows how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are
contradicted by the play's dramatic action. Controversial sequences
are placed in the context of Elizabethan thought while the
exceptional variety of language and dialect in the text is also
studied. An updated reading list completes the edition.
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