Henry V
by William Shakespeare · first published 1600
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Introducing this edition, Gary Taylor shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines controversial critical interpretations, discusses the play's fluctuating fortunes in performance, and analyses the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization. The first Folio text is radically rethought, making original use of the First Quarto (1600).
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…something, or refer someone to a specific and narrow section. In this usage, it's very similar to the way we cite Shakespeare, Homer, Chaucer, Milton, etc. For example, the St. Crispin's day speech in Henry V is at IV.iii.18-67, and any Shakespearean actor, fan, or scholar knows what that means, but that notation doesn't force them to think of the play as merely a set of disconnected speeches.
on “Bible API” ↗…relying on them to cooperate, but that can be all part of the fun. > consistent Consistency issues can usually be fixed with wizards. (edit: the whole issue is addressed by Shakespeare at the start of Henry V, "can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France" etc)
on “Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (2006)” ↗I was 13 or 14 and one day with nothing to watch on TV I turned on my local PBS station. Henry V (1989) was on. I saw some sort of medieval show and thought “knights and castles… cool”. I knew of Shakespeare but really hadn’t given it much thought. I lived in a rural area, not much of that around…
on “My ranking of every Shakespeare play” ↗…literature? (And I suppose, but can't cite, other literatures also.) The Odyssey kicks off with Athena inspiring Telemachus to independence. Shakespeare's Henry IV plays are all about Prince Hal becoming Henry V. War and Peace follows three men from adolescence to maturity, and one of them, Prince Andrei, to a couple of levels. And I think one could find examples of literature following adolescent women through.
on “The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood” ↗…insight into the Elizabethan period in particular by a very close familiarity with its plays. Shakespeare never mentions it, and he does talk about sleep quite a bit. One example that comes to mind, from Henry V: But, like a lackey, from the rise to set Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night Sleeps in Elysium Hal doesn't say "All night sleeps in Elysium except for that bit where he wakes up…
on “The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’” ↗…reasonable to consider them as two poles of an English literary tradition, both espousing the cause of the “doughty Englishman” (also expressed by Shakespeare’s references to the commoners accompanying Henry V), but with Orwell despairing of their state. and Tolkien celebrating it. Another contemporary whom I associate with that Weltanschauung is T. H. White, though his perspective, IMHO, is more High Tory.
on “On Tolkien and Orwell” ↗Shakespeare already did all of that. Prequel: Henry VI part 1 was written after the success of Part 2 and 3 (which wasn't originally called Part 2 and 3 of course). Spin-off: The Merry Wiwes of Windsor was written because of the popularity of the Falstaff…
on “Could the greatest works of literature be undiscovered?” ↗…in order to confuse classifier networks into thinking that the text was written by a human, and not by an AI. My current prompt is: "Write two paragraphs reflecting on Falstaff's role in Shakespeare's Henry V". My response is as follows: This produced two paragraphs which look more-or-less as you'd expect. According to the classifier, the generated text is "very unlikely" to be AI-generated. Interesting...
on “New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text” ↗I'm reading again Henry V, by Shakespeare. The first scene starts with some realpolitik where the archbishop of Canterbury (a Catholic bishop then) distracts the king from passing a law that would strip the Church from a large…
on “I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the East of the Grand Duchy” ↗…but Tolkien’s experience reflected the consequence of an interesting domestic shift in the British isles, as industrialization increased the separation between the classes. Contrast the comradeship of Henry V in Shakespeare’s eponymous play: a group of aristos and a mob of peasants looking for money and just a change of being stuck on the land: the trench experience was a forced reversion to a social propinquity…
on “The Moral Economy of the Shire” ↗