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TIME TRIALS.('Henry V')(Theater Review)
"Henry V" (at the Delacorte Theatre, in Central Park, under the lively if uneven direction of Mark Wing-Davey) is Shakespeare's version of three-card monte: what you see is never what you get. What seems, on the surface, a panegyric to the victor of the battle of Agincourt is, in the ironies of its structure and the antitheses of its speech, a cunning commentary on the hypocrisy of political personality.
The prodigal Prince Hal, having ascended the throne, has been born again. "The courses of his youth promised it not," the Archbishop of Canterbury explains in the first scene:
The breath no sooner left his father's body, But that his wildness, mortified ...
- King Henry IV, Part II: Act IV, Scene IV
- Reference information from: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare, William January 1, 1994 700+ words
...Enter KING HENRY IV, the Princes Thomas of CLARENCE and...GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others.} KING HENRY IV: Now, lords, if God doth give successful...your majesty Shall soon enjoy. KING HENRY IV: Humphrey, my son of Gloucester...
- An echo of 'Henry IV, Part 2,' in a work by King James I?
- ANQ Forse, James H. March 22, 1995 700+ words
...the margin for the anecdote about Henry IV. And well it should not; though...could not have taken this version of Henry IV's remarks to his son, nor even...have been echoing Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV: Come hither, Harry, sit thou by...
- King Henry IV, Part II: Act IV, Scene V
- Reference information from: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare, William January 1, 1994 700+ words
...KING HENRY IV lying on a bed: CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER...and others in attendance.} KING HENRY IV: Let there be no noise made, my...the music in the other room. KING HENRY IV: Set me the crown upon my pillow...
- Historical Works of William Shakespeare: The Second Part Of King Henry IV:...
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Shakespeare, William January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Of New York The Second Part Of King Henry IV: Introduction Characters In Order...of Norfolk whom Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) had accused of treason. Mistress...servant. Gower: A messenger of King Henry IV. Prince Henry: Prince of Wales...
- Shakespeare's 'Henry IV, part 2.'
- The Explicator Harrington, Gary March 22, 1995 700+ words
...boisterous voice throughout 1 and 2 Henry IV, Prince Hal at last seems to succeed...banishment in the last scene of 2 Henry IV also becomes a metatheatrical imprisonment...revives at Shrewsbury at the end of 1 Henry IV, so in the Epilogue of 2 Henry IV...
- "A Plague of All Cowards:" "Macomber" and Henry IV.
- Magazine article from: The Hemingway Review Harrington, Gary March 22, 1996 700+ words
THE SOURCE in 2 Henry IV for the Shakespeare quotation in "The...himself was well-acquainted with 2 Henry IV and, as I shall propose, equally familiar...Shakespeare's Lancastrian tetralogy, 1 Henry IV.(3) The very placement of the excerpt...
- Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Albion Attreed, Lorraine June 22, 2004 700+ words
...Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs, eds. Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime...of papers from a 2001 colloquium on Henry IV argue that the king has received less...measured by Anthony Tuck's study" Henry IV and Chivalry." Henry and his father...
- King Henry IV, Part I: Act V, Scene IV
- Reference information from: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare, William January 1, 1994 700+ words
...and EARL OF WESTMORELAND.} KING HENRY IV: I prithee, Harry, withdraw thyself...retirement do amaze your friends. KING HENRY IV: I will do so. My Lord of Westmoreland...respect thee as my soul. 20 KING HENRY IV: I saw him hold Lord Percy at the...