by William Shakespeare · Cambridge University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521293693
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«King Henry V» is the historical play by William Shakespeare, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback (258 pages, in English).
The play shows Henry V as a military hero and as a calculating individual, and highlights the contradictions between the Chorus's patriotic discourse and the action. Andrew Gurr's study interprets it as a reaction to a decade of war, contextualizes it in Elizabethan thought on war, and analyzes its variety of language and dialects.
Published in 1992 in the The New Cambridge Shakespeare series, with edition and introduction by Andrew Gurr and appendices on sources and the play's stage history.
Academic edition aimed at university students and specialists in English literature and Elizabethan theater.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
