CRITICISM

Baldo, Jonathan. “Wars of Memory in Henry V.” Shakespeare Quarterly 47, no. 2 (summer 1996): 132-59.

Evaluates Henry V as a play primarily concerned with collective memory, forgetting, and the legitimization of the sovereign nation-state.

Cubeta, Paul M. “Falstaff and the Art of Dying.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 27, no. 2 (spring 1987): 197-211.

Assesses the effectiveness of Shakespeare's indirect dramatization of Falstaff's death in the Henriad.

Erickson, Peter. “Fathers, Sons, and Brothers in Henry V.” In Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare's Henry V, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 111-33. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.

Considers the tragic dimension of Henry V in its representation of strained masculine relations.

Granville-Barker, Harley. “From Henry V to Hamlet.” In More Prefaces to Shakespeare, edited by Edward M. Moore, pp. 135-67. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974.

Explores the dramatic disappointments of Henry V as part of the arc of Shakespeare's artistic development toward the achievement of Hamlet.

Howlett, Kathy M. “Framing Ambiguity: Kenneth Branagh's Henry V.” In Framing Shakespeare on Film, pp. 92-114. Athens: Ohio State University Press, 2000.

Examines the irony and ambiguity in Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film version of Henry V.

Kezar, Dennis. “Shakespeare's Guilt Trip in Henry V.” Modern Language Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2000): 431-61.

Suggests that Henry V delves into concepts of authorial responsibility and guilt as understood within the cultural context of Renaissance England.

Kohler, Michael. “Review of Henry V.” Theatre Journal 52, no. 2 (May 2000): 263-66.

Reviews a 1999 French production of Henry V performed at Avignon and directed by Jean-Louis Benoit, commenting on an overall flatness occasioned by its political neutrality.

McEachern, Claire. “Henry V and the Paradox of the Body Politic.” Shakespeare Quarterly 45, no. 1 (spring 1994): 33-59.

Considers the ways in which Henry V treats the tension between the political hegemony of the nation-state and the human bonds that constitute a social community.

Sutherland, John, and Cedric Watts. “Henry V's Claim to France: Valid or Invalid?” In Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles, pp. 117-25. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Argues that Henry's already suspect claim to the French throne is finally depicted as invalid and illegitimate at the conclusion of Henry V.

Tiffany, Grace. “Puritanism in Comic History: Exposing Royalty in the Henry Plays.” Shakespeare Studies 26 (1998): 256-87.

Focuses on Falstaff in the Henriad as a carnivalesque inversion of the Puritan figure.