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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2019
      July 2005
      ISBN:
      9781139836616
      9780521847926
      9780521612647
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139836616
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 266 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.427kg, 263 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts
      Series:
      The New Cambridge Shakespeare
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts
    Series:
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare
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    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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