About this title: Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war, and of the penalties as well as the glories of human greatness. Introducing this brilliantly innovative edition, Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 02/2003
ISBN-13:9780486428871ISBN:0486428877
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 02/2003
ISBN-13:9780486428871ISBN:0486428877
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. read more
Edition: Annotated.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780671722654ISBN:0671722654
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 352 p. New Folger Library Shakespeare (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Fairly clean copy. No marks that I noticed. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean spine with very slight cover wear and staining to edge of pages. Still a nice copy. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Bantam Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780671722654ISBN:0671722654
Description: Good. 0671722654 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
"Re-read Henry IV pts 1 & 2 a while back since I was watching the BBC version with some friends. Since I am going to see Richard III at Chicago Shakespeare in November I figured I should re-read Henry V and Henry VI 1,2 & 3. Henry V is swell, but it doesn't engage me on the level that the Henry IV plays do. The pageant aspect of it is thrilling but the characters, including Henry V, are all a little more broadly drawn."
"After reading the two parts of Henry IV, I had little love for Hal (aka Henry V) - but there's no question that this is HIS play (he's banished Falstaff, as he had to - Falstaff could not survive in the world of Agincourt agonistes). My reading pleasure was extended and revived by watching the Kenneth Branagh movie again - I know: heresy - but Branagh's performance really makes clear that in this play, Shakespeare was inventing "English heroism." And he did a damn fine job too.
As for the Olivier version, well I know heated opinions differ, but for me it was little more than a cartoon."
"The English monarch, Henry the 5th goes after disputed lands and titles in France. At Agincourt the French calvary suffer one of their worst defeats by English archers. An excellent play.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."
"I enjoyed reading this play very much. I found the political aspects interesting and compelling. I thought Henry was such a good man as he fought alongside his subjects. I knew that I would find inspiration in the St. Crispin's speech. What I did not count on was such a wonderful and romantic speech from Henry to Katherine. It had me in tears! It is a beautiful speech. I cannot wait to see this play!"
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