Henry VI, Part 3 (Pelican Shakespeare)
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them...
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"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140714678 (0140714677)
Publish date: December 1st 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
16th Century
Series: Wars of the Roses (#7)
As I read through this play I began to realise how closely connected it is to Richard III, which is not surprising since this play was written shortly after Henry VI. In many way, much of the action in Richard III, as well as a number of the characters, stem from this play. I remember watching the I...
Andrew Scott's brilliant reciting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PkuF00jN14 I have no brother, I am like no brother, And this word ‘love’, which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me! I am myself aloneFor I have often heard my mother say I came into the world wi...
Excited for Richard iii. In love with the character already.
What follows are the collective observations of the entire trilogy:1 Henry VI -- 2.5 to 3 stars2 Henry VI -- 3+ stars3 Henry VI -- 4 starsI don't have much to say about part 1 of Shakespeare's Henry VI. It's not a bad play; it's just not the Bard at his best. It has its moments but the impression I ...
Henry VI's! They're like buses. You wait for ages, and then three come by at once.
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