Henry IV, Part II

ISBN-13: 9780230232143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str.

Eric Rasmussen;Jonathan Bate

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This fresh edition of Henry IV Part 2 from the RSC offers fascinating new material to help readers understand the play on the page and in performance, including interviews with Shakespearean directors Michael Boyd and Adrian Noble and actor Michael Pennington, an introduction by Jonathan Bate and student-friendly scene-by-scene analysis.

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Introduction.- About the Text.- Key Facts.- The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing his Death and the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth.- Quarto Passages that do not Appear in the Folio.- Textual Notes.- Scene-by-scene Analysis.- Henry IV in Performance: the RSC and Beyond.- Four Centuries of Henry IV: An Overview.- At the Royal Shakespeare Company.- Actor and Director: Interviews with Michael Boyd, Adrian Noble and Michael Pennington.- Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre.- Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology.- Further Reading and Viewing.- Acknowledgements and Picture Credits.

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JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.

ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.

Blurb

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's profound exploration of a prince's coming of age and the rejection of old Jack Falstaff

THIS EDITION INCLUDES:
• An illuminating introduction to Henry IV Part II by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
• The play - with clear and authoritative explanatory notes on each page
• A helpful scene-by-scene analysis and key facts about the play
• An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
• A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions

The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of Henry IV Part II in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with two leading directors and an actor– Michael Boyd, Adrian Noble and Michael Pennington – so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.

Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer an accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.