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King Henry V

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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe:

King Henry V - König Heinrich V. Deutsche Prosafassung mit Anmerkungen von Max Wechsler, Einleitung und Kommentar von Barbara Sträuli Arslan.

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on-line editions

Quarto (1600), Folio (1623) [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/H5/index.html]

Folio (1623), University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]

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translations

Heinrich V. Deutsche Übersetzung W. Schlegel [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/heinrch5/heinrch5.htm]

Koning Hendrik V
Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

Enrico V Shakespeare in Italian, transl. Goffredo Raponi: [http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/s/shakespeare/index.htm]

Enrico V / Henry V Italian version (PDF) [http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-drammi.html]

Henry V as a comic; adaptation John McDonald, Classical Comics [http://www.classicalcomics.com/books/henryv.html]
three text versions (original, "plain" and "quick":
http://www.classicalcomics.com/press/HenryVOrigAct1.pdf
http://www.classicalcomics.com/press/HenryVPlainAct1.pdf
http://www.classicalcomics.com/press/HenryVQuickAct1.pdf

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sources

The Furness Shakespeare Library: Online facsimile edition of Henry V( 1619). Holinshed's Chronicles (1577); Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1610); Gosson's Playes Confuted (1615); Crooke's Mikrokosmographia (1615) ; Samuel Harsnett's A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures (1603);[http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]

A Mirovr for Magistrates (1610) [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?textID=mirour&PagePosition=1] (07/12/00)

Edward Hall, 1548,
The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke,[http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]

C. Tacitus
The Annals transl. by Alfred John Church and W. J. Brodripp [http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html]

not available:
Fabyan, New Chronicles of England and France
The Annals of C. Tacitus,
trans. R. Greneway, 1598
The Battle of Agincourt,
Anon.
Instructions, Observations and Orders Militarie, John Smithe, 1595

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historical context

The Wars of the Roses [http://www.northcoast.com/~ming/roses/roses.html]

Hamm, Christopher.
The "Miracle" of Agincourt [http://www.thehistorynet.com/BritishHeritage/articles/2000/0200_text.htm]

Shakespeare and history [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/historysubj.html] (24/04/01)
The histories: historical background
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/thehistoriessubj.html] (24/04/01)
Order of Kings and Plays [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/chronologies.html] (24/04/01)
Henry IV: historical context [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/henryv.html] (24/04/01)
The real Falstaff
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/henryv+1.html]

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productions, performances

a) stage history

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

b) actors, pictures of performances


The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] Histories [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/enghistory.shtml] (Jan. 2002)

c) reviews of productions

Joseph Papp,
Broadway 1960/61

Lanoye, Tom; Luk Perceval: TEN OORLOG (
SCHLACHTEN!) , see also: ShinE events (July 2000)

King John at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. review. Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University. MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)

McCallum, Pamela, U. of Calgary. Cultural Memory and the
RSC Productions "This England: The Histories," Winter/Spring 2001: Some Comments on Roberta Barker's "Well-Graced Actors and Their Doubles." MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)

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film versions

Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]

Symphony for the Spire (1992) dir. Mike Mansfield, with K. Branagh and Prince Charles [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0250766]
Henry V (UK; 1989) dir. Kenneth Branagh [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097499]
Hatchuel, Sarah.
Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet (EMLS 6.1) [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/hatchbra.htm]
Henry V (UK, 1979) (BBC, TV) dir. David Giles [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079289]
Henry V (Canada, 1966) (TV) dir. Lorne Freed and M. Langham [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060502]
An Age of Kings (1960) (BBC, TV) dir. Michael Hayes. A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III. 15 episodes, 60 min. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0239157]
The Life of Henry V (1957) (TV) dir. Peter Dews [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0050641]
Henry V (UK, 1953) (TV) dir. Peter Watts [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0045865]
Henry V (UK, 1951) (TV) dir. Leonard Brett, Royston Morley [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0043631]
Henry V (UK, USA 1944) dir. Reginald Beck, Laurence Olivier [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0036910]
Campanadas a medianoche /Chimes at Midnight (Spain/Switzerland 1965) The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff, dir. Orson Welles [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059012]
Comparison between
Henry V, Olivier (1944) and Branagh (1989). [http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/3946/shakspier/henryv.html] (May 2002)

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adaptations in literature

Anon. Song "
For the Victory at Agincourt" [http://www.aginc.net/battle/carol.html]

Hill, Aaron. King Henry the Fifth. 1723.

Kean, Charles. Shakespeare's Play of King Henry the Fifth. 1859.

Michael Drayton, Ode
"The Battle of Agincourt" [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/agincour.htm]

Lanoye, Tom; Luk Perceval: TEN OORLOG (
SCHLACHTEN!) , see also: ShinE events (July 2000)

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paintings, illustrations

Shakespeare illustrated [http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/HenryVPaintings.html]
Boydell, London 1803
copperplates. [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0112.html]

Henry V as a comic; adaptation John McDonald, Classical Comics [http://www.classicalcomics.com/books/henryv.html]

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criticism

Aaron, Melissa D.
The Globe and Henry V as Business Document Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 40.2 (2000) 277-292 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v040/40.2aaron.html]

Chalquist, Craig.
The Inner Kingship of Shakespeare's Fifth Henry [http://www.thineownself.com/growking.html ]

Ewert , K. A.
Commodification and Representation: The Body in Shakespeare's History Plays (SRASP, 1998) [http://www.marshall.edu/engsr//SR1998.html#Commodification and Representation:]

Hatchuel, Sarah.
Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet (EMLS 6.1) [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/hatchbra.htm]

Kiryakakis, Faye.
The Search for "The Mirror of all Christian Kings" [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5804/henryv.htm]

McCallum, Pamela, U. of Calgary. Cultural Memory and the RSC Productions "This England: The Histories," Winter/Spring 2001: Some Comments on Roberta Barker's "Well-Graced Actors and Their Doubles." MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)

Marx, Steven:
Holy War in Henry V in Shakespeare Survey 48, Nov./Dec. 1995, reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism Gale Publications, 1996 [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Publications/henry.html] (MAy 2002)

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 494-95. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-h5.html]

Pilkington, Ace G. Henry V (1997) [http://dsc.dixie.edu/shakespeare/henry5ess.htm] (May 2002)

Schneider, Ben Ross.
"Hal Imitates The Sun." From the SHAKSPER listserv archive via EMLS

Sinfield, Alan. Selective Quotation (a reply to Graham Bradshaw and Richard Levin concerning their critiques of Sinfield in Shakespearean International Yearbook vol. 1) in: Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar. (1-29-02) [http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/sinfield.html] (March 02)
Siar, David :
reply to Alan Sinfield [http://eserver.org/emc/1-2/siar.html] (March 02)

Taunton, Nina.
Aspects of Watchfulness and Command in the 1590s Military Camp and Shakespeare's Henry V [http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic98/taunton/6_98.html] (May 2002)

Touchstone: UK Shakespeare Collections [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/] (April 2002)

Touchstone Database access to descriptions of UK Shakespeare collections and online catalogues: The Shakespeare Institute Library / The Shakespeare Centre Library/ Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office / Birmingham Central Library [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/database.html] (April 2002)

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in the classroom

see also on this site:
Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

a) lesson plans for the lazy teacher


Cummings, Michael.
The Complete Shakespeare - Study Guide to Shakespeare. [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#top] (Jan. 2002) Henry IV. Part I [http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html#tophenry5.html#Henry V]

Dane, John and Elizabeth.
"The Ball's in your Court. Sporting with language." Act 1, (45 min.) Shakespeare Magazine Teaching Resource, [http://www.shakespearemag.com/tr.asp] (Jan. 2002)

Henderson, Paul. "We few, we happy few" Motivation speech in Henry V, 4.3.21ff. lesson plan for 1-3 classperiods. [http://www.folger.edu/education/lesson.cfm?lessonid=56] (Jan. 2002)

Marx, Steven.
Triangulating Shakespeare: teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles, links, suggestions, film reviews [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Histories/histories.html]

Massi, JM.
study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/h5.html] (25/04/01)

Shakespeare for Teachers and Students (Internet School Library Media Centre) The best site for general links and lesson plans for some of the major plays. Henry V [http://falcon.jmu.edu/%7Eramseyil/shakes.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Teaching Shakespeare, Folger, lesson plans (archive) [http://www.folger.edu/education/getarchive.cfm]

Henry V as a comic; adaptation John McDonald, Classical Comics [http://www.classicalcomics.com/books/henryv.html]
three text versions (original, "plain" and "quick":
http://www.classicalcomics.com/press/HenryVOrigAct1.pdf
http://www.classicalcomics.com/press/HenryVPlainAct1.pdf
http://www.classicalcomics.com/press/HenryVQuickAct1.pdf



b) sites for the eager student

Shakespeare- For Teachers and Students: Internet School Library Media Centre [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] (Jan . 2002)

Classic Notes. [www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/henryv/] (Jan. 2002)
Spark Notes [http://www.sparknotes.com/guides/henryv/]

Mabillard, Amanda.
Guide to histories, text [http://shakespeare.about.com/msub-histories.htm?once=true&] (Jan. 2002)

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deutsche Webseiten

Andriz, Rod.
Heinrich V. - Hintergründe und Informationen. [http://www.freunde.imperium.de/andriz/shakespeare/fo_heinrich5.htm]

Groechel, André. Das kleine Shakespeare-Brevier.
Heinrich V. Inhaltsangabe, Quellen, Motive, Links: Informationen zu Quellen, Einführung ins Stück, Hintergründe, Links zu deutschen und englischen elektronischen Texten usw. [http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/henry5.htm]
Falls dieser Link nicht klappt: [
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/henry5.htm]

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