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Henry V de William Shakespeare

Henry V

Autor William Shakespeare
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mai 2019

În cadrul programelor de studii filologice și de istorie a teatrului, Henry V ocupă un loc central ca punct culminant al ciclului istoric shakespearian. Descoperim aici nu doar o cronică a campaniei militare engleze din 1415, ci și o explorare profundă a responsabilității puterii. Subliniem modul în care William Shakespeare folosește Corul pentru a depăși limitările scenei elisabetane, invitând cititorul să își folosească „forțele imaginative” pentru a transforma o oră de lectură în ani de istorie. Această ediție Wordsworth Classics, îngrijită de Cedric Watts, oferă un aparat critic esențial care lipsește adesea din edițiile de masă. Remarcăm structura riguroasă în cinci acte, unde primele două analizează legitimitatea pretențiilor la tron, în timp ce actele următoare ne poartă prin asediul Harfleur-ului până la victoria de la Agincourt. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică ca The Life of Henry the Fifth, dar cu o abordare mult mai ancorată în contextul academic, datorită includerii surselor primare precum cronicile lui Raphael Holinshed. În contextul operei autorului, piesa completează evoluția personajului începută în Henry IV, marcând tranziția de la tânărul indisciplinat la monarhul calculat. Spre deosebire de abordările grafice sau simplificate, precum Macbeth The Graphic Novel, acest volum păstrează integritatea textului original, îmbogățindu-l cu hărți genealogice și eseuri despre etica războiului în perioada elisabetană, elemente vitale pentru înțelegerea nuanțelor politice ale epocii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789389193756
ISBN-10: 9389193753
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Prince Classics

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție studenților și pasionaților de istorie care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar textul lui Shakespeare, ci și contextul real al Războiului de o Sută de Ani. Beneficiați de notele explicative ale profesorului Cedric Watts și de apendicele documentare care clarifică diferențele dintre mitul eroic și realitatea istorică. Este un instrument de studiu complet, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra maturizării politice și a retoricii militare.

Despre autor

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), dramaturgul și poetul național al Angliei, rămâne figura centrală a literaturii universale. Născut în Stratford-upon-Avon, și-a construit o carieră prodigioasă la Londra ca actor și proprietar al companiei „Lord Chamberlain's Men”. Opera sa, ce cuprinde 39 de piese și 154 de sonete, este definită prin profunzime psihologică și inovație lingvistică. Henry V, scrisă în jurul anului 1599, face parte din perioada sa de maturitate creativă, în care istoriile și comediile timpurii lăsau locul marilor tragedii. Opera sa continuă să fie tradusă și pusă în scenă global, rămânând un reper fundamental pentru înțelegerea condiției umane.

Descriere scurtă

Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, p.6 which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, and Henry IV, Part 2. The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild, undisciplined young man. In Henry V, the young prince has matured. He embarks on an expedition to France and, his army badly outnumbered, defeats the French at Agincourt.The Elizabethan stage lacked scenery. It begins with a Prologue, in which the Chorus (a lone speaker addressing the audience) apologizes for the limitations of the theatre, wishing there were "a Muse of fire", with real princes and a kingdom for a stage, to do justice to King Henry's story. Then, says the Chorus, King Henry would " a]ssume the port bearing] of Mars". The Chorus encourages the audience to use their "imaginary forces" to overcome the limitations of the stage: "Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ... turning the accomplishment of many years / Into an hour-glass".Shakespeare's plays are in five acts. In Henry V, the first two deal largely with the king and his decision to invade France, persuaded that through ancestry, he is the rightful heir to the French throne. The French Dauphin, son of King Charles VI, answers Henry's claims with a condescending and insulting gift of tennis balls, "as matching to his youth and vanity."The Chorus reappears at the beginning of each act to advance the story. At the beginning of Act II, he describes the country's dedication to the war effort: "Now all the youth of England are on fire... They sell the pasture now to buy the horse, / Following the mirror of all Christian kings ...." Act II includes a plot by the Earl of Cambridge and two comrades to assassinate Henry at Southampton. Henry's clever uncovering of the plot and his ruthless treatment of the conspirators show that he has changed from the earlier plays in which he appeared.In Act III Henry and his troops cross the English Channel to attack the French port of Harfleur. The Chorus appears again: "Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy/And leave your England, as dead midnight still". The French king, says the Chorus, "doth offer him / Catharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry, / Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms." Henry is not satisfied.At the siege of Harfleur, the English are beaten back at first, but Henry urges them on with one of Shakespeare's best-known speeches. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more / Or close the wall up with our English dead...." After a bloody siege, the English take Harfleur, but Henry's forces are so depleted that he decides not to go on to Paris. Instead, he decides to move up the coast to Calais. The French assemble a powerful army and pursue him.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Notă biografică

Carl D. Atkins has studied Shakespeare for decades. In addition to his variorum edition of The Sonnets (only the fourth variorum edition since The Sonnets were printed in 1609) he has published two articles on The Sonnets and one on Measure for Measure, all in the respected journal, Studies in Philology. Dr. Atkins has made a complete metrical analysis of all 154 poems, which serves as an excellent companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets Among His Private Friends. It is available gratis at: www.amonghisprivatefriends.com. Dr. Atkins is a physician. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife in New York. Review of Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Three Hundred Years of Commentary: "...Atkins also offers an insightful running commentary on the metrical features of the individual poems, making this edition stand out even further from all other recent editions. Including a fine bibliography, a general index, and three appendixes, this lucid, well-researched edition is the product of many years of labor and love; it will be an indispensable work for those interested in Shakespeare's sonnets." Choice, May 2008

Descriere

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Upon opening their expensive new book in 1623, buyers of the folio collection of William Shakespeare’s plays were promised The Life of Henry the Fift. What they went on to read, however, was not a full “life” in the modern biographical sense. The battle of Agincourt is the play’s main event; every scene leads up to or follows directly from the climax of one of England’s most one-sided and famous victories. The play’s ambiguous portrayal of war has spurred critical debate for centuries, and its performances have reflected shifting political and cultural views.
James D. Mardock’s Introduction provides an extensive discussion of Henry V’s critical and stage histories and explores the play’s complex relationship with other history plays (and with history itself). The appendices provide materials on the play’s historical background and sources, as well as documents on contemporary warfare. Additional materials, including an annotated text of the 1600 quarto (Q1) edition, are available on the Internet Shakespeare Editions website.
A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.

Recenzii

Upon opening their expensive new book in 1623, buyers of the folio collection of William Shakespeare’s plays were promised The Life of Henry the Fift. What they went on to read, however, was not a full “life” in the modern biographical sense. The battle of Agincourt is the play’s main event; every scene leads up to or follows directly from the climax of one of England’s most one-sided and famous victories. The play’s ambiguous portrayal of war has spurred critical debate for centuries, and its performances have reflected shifting political and cultural views.
James D. Mardock’s Introduction provides an extensive discussion of Henry V’s critical and stage histories and explores the play’s complex relationship with other history plays (and with history itself). The appendices provide materials on the play’s historical background and sources, as well as documents on contemporary warfare. Additional materials, including an annotated text of the 1600 quarto (Q1) edition, are available on the Internet Shakespeare Editions website.
A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.

“This is an outstanding edition. Its clear, straightforward, and rich annotations make it eminently suitable for the classroom, as do the judiciously compiled appendices of historical documents (as carefully annotated as the play itself). However, it is James D. Mardock’s introduction that is the real gem here: although accessible enough for an undergraduate reader, it stands as a gracefully argued, learned, and remarkably acute major piece of criticism in its own right, a genuine contribution to the scholarly debates about Henry V.” — Holger Syme, University of Toronto
“Once again the Broadview/Internet Shakespeare editors provide a wonderfully lucid and contextually rich scholarly text. The edition provides well-chosen primary sources to illustrate ideologies of warfare, English/French military practices, Salic law, and many of the interesting material references in the play. With these resources, the Broadview Henry V intelligently engages readers in the world of Shakespeare’s drama. An extensive and detailed introduction is particularly thorough on the play’s performance history (stage and screen) from its earliest productions to the early 21st century. The play-text itself is admirably set, with helpful glosses and restrained but useful footnotes. The whole edition is nicely balanced between a clean, clear text and a rich border of carefully curated historical information.” — Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia

Cuprins

FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
SHAKESPEARE’S LIFE
SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND HENRY V:
A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
THE LIFE OF HENRY THE FIFTH
APPENDIX A: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  1. Historical Figures in Henry V
  2. Genealogy of the English Monarchy
APPENDIX B: SOURCES AND LEGACIES
  1. From Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587)
  2. From The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth (anonymous, c. 1585)
  3. From John Lyly, Euphues and His England (1580)
  4. Michael Drayton, “The Ballad of Agincourt” (1606/1619)
APPENDIX C: SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ATTITUDES TO WAR
  1. From Stephen Gosson, The Trumpet of War: A Sermon Preached at Paul’s Cross the Seventh of May 1598 (1598)
  2. From Barnabe Rich, Alarm to England (1578)
  3. From Balthazar Ayala, Three Books on the Law of War (1582)
  4. From Richard Crompton, The Mansion of Magnanimity (1599)
  5. From Robert Barret, The Theoric and Practic of Modern Wars, Discoursed in Dialogue Wise (1598)
Works Cited and Bibliography