Henry V

Henry V Criticism

• Henry V (Vol. 67)
  • Introduction
  • Shakespeare's Henry V: Towards the Problem Play
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Whatever Happened to Prince Hal? An Essay On Henry V.
    • Katherine of France as Victim and Bride
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • ‘When Blood Is Their Argument’: Class, Character, and Historymaking in Shakespeare's and Branagh's Henry V.
    • ‘By the Mass, our hearts are in the trim’: Catholicism and British Identity in Oliver's Henry V.
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Henry V and History
    • Englishing the Other: ‘Le tiers exlu’ and Shakespeare's Henry V.
    • Nostalgia and the Not Yet Late Queen: Refusing Female Rule in Henry V.
    • France in Shakespeare's Henry V.
    • Neighbourhood in Henry V.
    • ‘Our inland’: Shakespeare's Henry V and the Celtic Fringe
  • Further Reading
• Henry V (Vol. 79)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Chronicle and Romance Modes in Henry V.
    • This Sceptred Isle: Henry V.
    • The Famous Victories of William Shakespeare: The Life of Henry the Fifth.
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Henry's Desires
    • The Conscience of the King: Henry V and the Reformed Conscience
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • The Last Post: Henry V, War Culture and the Postmodern Shakespeare
    • Review of Henry V.
    • Review of Henry V.
    • Review of Henry V
    • Review of Henry V
    • Review of Henry V
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Thematic Contraries and the Dramaturgy of Henry V.
    • The Brave New World of Shakespeare's Henry V Revisited
    • Hazlitt on Henry V, and the Appropriation of Shakespeare
    • Mythoi of Brotherhood: Generic Emplotment in Henry V.
    • Themes
    • ‘Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead’: Henry V and the Politics of the English History Play
  • Further Reading
• Henry V (Vol. 89)
  • Introduction
  • Mirror of Kingship
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Evolution of Mistress Quickly
    • The ‘Martyrdom’ of Falstaff
    • Henry V and Plutarch's Alexander
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Hytner's Henry V Wins the Argument
    • Adrian Lester is an Eerie, Modern Henry in a State-of-the-Nation Epic
    • Henry V.
    • Henry V.
    • Henry V.
    • Long Liev the King
    • An Evening in the Park with a Playboy Prince
    • Oh! Henry! Liev Schreiber Leads Valiant Charge in Iraqi Twist on Shakespeare's Hero
    • Henry Goes to Baghdad
    • War and William Shakespeare
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Henry V's Decision: Interrogative Texts
    • The Politics of French Language in Shakespeare's History Plays
    • Advantage, Affect, History, Henry V.
  • Further Reading
• When Blood is Their Argument: Class, Character, and Historymaking in Shakespeare's and Branagh's Henry V
• Henry V (Vol. 30)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Imagery and Irony in Henry V
    • Henry V: The Strain of Rule
    • The King Disguised: Shakespeare's Henry V and the Comical History
    • Henry V: The Act of Order and Henry V: English, Rhetoric, Theater
  • Historical Elements
    • Ambivalence: The Dialectic of the Histories
    • "This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son' : Henry V and the Art of History
    • Henry V: "Speak freely of our acts, or else"
    • The Elizabethan Hal
  • Structure
    • 'True Things and Mock'ries': Epic and History in Henry V
    • The Maturity Perspective: King John, 1, 2 Henry IV, Henry V
    • King Henry V
  • Characterization
    • Shakespeare's England: Henry V
    • "Henry V" and History
    • Henry V: The Epic Hero as Dramatic Protagonist
    • The Episode with Williams in Henry V
    • Shakespeare's Henry V: Another Part of the Critical Forest
    • Henry V's Politics of Non-Responsibility
    • An introduction to Henry V
  • Further Reading
• Holy War in Henry V
• Edward III in Henry V
• Princes, Pirates, and Pigs: Criminalizing Wars of Conquest in Henry V
• Henry V and the Chivalric Revival
  • Introduction
  • Flower of chivalry
  • The chivalric revival
  • War and chivalry
  • The dangers of idealism
• Pro Patria Mori: War and Power in the Henriad
• Fluellen's Name
• The Hybrid Reformations of Shakespeare's Second Henriad
• The Sentimentalizing of Communitas in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V
• Henry V (Vol. 49)
  • Introduction
  • Chorus
    • That Within Which Passes Show: The Function of the Chorus in Henry V
    • Henry V: King, Chorus, and Critics
    • 'It Must Be Your Imagination Then': The Prologue and the Plural Text in Henry V and Elsewhere
    • Henry V as Working-House of Ideology
  • Law And Justice
    • The Conspiracy of Silence in Henry V
    • 'The King is a Good King, but it must be as it may': History, Heroism, and Henry V
  • Politics And Ideology
    • Henry V
    • The Historical Challenge
  • Further Reading