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Henry V Onstage: From the Falklands War to Brexit (1986-2018)

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A play like Henry V offers opportunities to trace the extent to which directors have chosen to endorse or critique official military and political rhetoric, or refrained from forcing the play into an either/or frame. Even when the setting and directorial line are designed to bring the audience closer to Shakespeare’s period, stagings reflect or probe in varying degrees the context of shifting social attitudes to war and national identity of the country in which they are being produced. Taking as its starting-point Michael Bogdanov's 1986 production, which marked a break with the Benson-Olivier legacy of the play as a rallying-cry, this essay offers a brief overview of the past three decades of theatre productions, focusing on Britain, with side-glances at American and Canadian productions.

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halshs-02263215 , version 1 (03-08-2019)

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Janice Valls-Russell. Henry V Onstage: From the Falklands War to Brexit (1986-2018): http://scalar.usc.edu/works/henry-v/henry-v-onstage-from-the-falklands-war-to-brexit-1986-2018-by-janice-valls-russell. Sujata Iyengar and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Focus on "Henry V": Navigating Digital Text, Performance, & Historical Resources, Scalar, 2019. ⟨halshs-02263215⟩
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