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Mark Alcamo deposited Once More: The Case for a (Mindful) Reading (Ironic) of Henry V in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHenry V has one of the most divisive critical histories in the Shakespeare canon. For the first two hundred years after being published, it was seen as a patriotic celebration of the heroic warrior King Henry V and his victory at Agincourt. But in 1817 William Hazlitt made remarks critical of the King and several subsequent commentators interested…[Read more]
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Henry V has one of the most divisive critical histories in the Shakespeare canon. For the first two hundred years after being published it was seen as a patriotic celebration of King Henry V and his victory at Agincourt, but starting with William Hazlitt in 1817 numerous commentators have seen Henry as less than heroic, and in 1919 Gerald Gould…[Read more]
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Mark Alcamo deposited Once More: The Case for a (Mindful) Reading (Ironic) of Henry V on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Henry V has one of the most divisive critical histories in the Shakespeare canon. For the first two hundred years after being published, it was seen as a patriotic celebration of the heroic warrior King Henry V and his victory at Agincourt. But in 1817 William Hazlitt made remarks critical of the King and several subsequent commentators interested…[Read more]
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