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Introduction; The stage-history of Henry V; To the reader; The Life of Henry the Fifth; the text of Henry V; Notes; Glossary.
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Tommy Groves
reviewed King Henry V: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare on May 12, 2007 King Henry V: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare
Sure, it's a jingoistic pageant, but it's a great jingoistic pageant, and--besides--it is the most melancholy,ironic, self-aware--and laugh-filled--jingoistic pageant ever staged.
In Act V, Henry tells Katherine that together they will produce a son, and that this warlike paragon of chivalry will march to the Holy Land and "take the Turk by the beard." Yet we should know--and Shakespeare's audience certainly knew--that this boy would grow up to be Henry VI, the sickly, prayerful unstable man who lost England's hold on France forever and precipitated the Wars of the Roses.
This play celebrates the wheel of time and the apotheosis of the golden warrior king whom that wheel's many revolutions--in the course if the preceding ten acts of Henry IV--has produced. And yet it never ceases to be conscious of the fact that success is always fleeting and that not even majesty itself, no matter how magnificent it may be, can last forever.
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Add King Henry V: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and, King Henry V: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add King Henry V: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and, King Henry V: The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare to your collection on WonderClub |
