King Henry V: A Critical Reader

by Line Cottegnies (Editor), Andrew Hiscock (Editor), Karen Britland (Editor), Lisa Hopkins (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350164796
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/2020
Series:	Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.73(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Notes on Contributors
Timeline

Introduction (Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Line Cottegnies, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
1. The Critical Backstory (James D. Mardock, University of Nevada, USA)
2. Performance History (Gisèle Venet and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
3. The State of the Art (Emma Smith, University of Oxford, UK)
4. Henry V on Screen (Sarah Hatchuel, Le Havre University, France)
5. New Directions: Shakespeare's Henry V and Religion (John Drakakis, University of Stirling, UK)
6. New Directions: Making and Remaking the British Kingdoms – Henry V, Then and Now (Christopher Ivic, Bath Spa University, UK)
7. New Directions: 'His Bruised Helmet and his Bended Sword' – The Politics of Criminality and Heroism in Henry V (Christine Sukic, University of Reims, France)
8. New Directions: Agincourt and After: The Adversary’s Perspective (Elizabeth Pentland, York University, Toronto, Canada)
9. Learning and Teaching Resources (Gillian Woods, Birkbeck, University of London, UK and Laura Seymour, Bath Spa University, UK)

Notes
Bibliography
Index