Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of SussexHenry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's historical plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' t...
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of SussexHenry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's historical plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his 'band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be 'this star of England'. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Kenneth Branagh's film-production reflected the changing valuation. Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism? Is Henry's achievement beset by irony? Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama?
KING HENRY
We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us.
His present and your pains we thank you for.
When we have matched our rackets to these balls,
We will in France, by God’s grace, play a set
Shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard.
Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
That all the courts of France will be disturbed
With chases. And we understand him well,
How he comes o’er us with our wilder days,
Not measuring what use we made of them.
We never valued this poor seat of England,
And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
To barbarous license, as ’tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home. (查看原文)
这本实在太无聊了，我硬找出两种读法是：1正如亨四写的是一个人人都看轻的浪荡子其实有帝王之气，亨五写的其实也就是一个人人都崇敬的国王如何在骨子里还是个流氓。他和士兵斗嘴，结尾强求Kate，都是无赖相，Chorus开头也说了这是一场高贵大戏般的庭审，每出例证都有作业目的；2亨五建构的是一个语音的英国：法国破碎的和威尔士滑稽的口音，在武力(English cudgel)中被统纳为帝国方言。如果这就是莎的...这本实在太无聊了，我硬找出两种读法是：1正如亨四写的是一个人人都看轻的浪荡子其实有帝王之气，亨五写的其实也就是一个人人都崇敬的国王如何在骨子里还是个流氓。他和士兵斗嘴，结尾强求Kate，都是无赖相，Chorus开头也说了这是一场高贵大戏般的庭审，每出例证都有作业目的；2亨五建构的是一个语音的英国：法国破碎的和威尔士滑稽的口音，在武力(English cudgel)中被统纳为帝国方言。如果这就是莎的政治理想，他真是太马基雅维利了，当然自《威尼斯商人》起的千古谜题就是，莎到底有没有tongue in the cheek。唉还是一想到Falstaff竟然死于他人的转述，我就没法原谅莎(展开)
与网友共同朗读莎的第一部。实在是有些惊诧（大概是先前受亨五二创剧荼毒太深），原剧如此problematic，亨五的characterization实在。。。不过喜欢chorus，虽然有几段也挺突兀无聊的。读到we few we happy few还是热泪盈眶但应该是因为代到了（…）其他值得讨论的：语言/外语问题（有些好奇EM舞台上的外语呈现），莎剧中consent的问题（朋友指出的）。
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0 有用 阿遥 2023-08-23 00:21:31 上海
啃这种原文我真是考验自己，莎翁你写英文就好好写不要用外来语！！！法语源的单词老娘的字典都不认识啊！
0 有用 艾米粒 2019-10-11 22:01:26
需要带现代英语翻译对照着看 a knowledge learning about what a kingship is like
0 有用 Pluto&Piaget 2025-03-17 14:04:27 美国
这本实在太无聊了，我硬找出两种读法是：1正如亨四写的是一个人人都看轻的浪荡子其实有帝王之气，亨五写的其实也就是一个人人都崇敬的国王如何在骨子里还是个流氓。他和士兵斗嘴，结尾强求Kate，都是无赖相，Chorus开头也说了这是一场高贵大戏般的庭审，每出例证都有作业目的；2亨五建构的是一个语音的英国：法国破碎的和威尔士滑稽的口音，在武力(English cudgel)中被统纳为帝国方言。如果这就是莎的... 这本实在太无聊了，我硬找出两种读法是：1正如亨四写的是一个人人都看轻的浪荡子其实有帝王之气，亨五写的其实也就是一个人人都崇敬的国王如何在骨子里还是个流氓。他和士兵斗嘴，结尾强求Kate，都是无赖相，Chorus开头也说了这是一场高贵大戏般的庭审，每出例证都有作业目的；2亨五建构的是一个语音的英国：法国破碎的和威尔士滑稽的口音，在武力(English cudgel)中被统纳为帝国方言。如果这就是莎的政治理想，他真是太马基雅维利了，当然自《威尼斯商人》起的千古谜题就是，莎到底有没有tongue in the cheek。唉还是一想到Falstaff竟然死于他人的转述，我就没法原谅莎 (展开)
0 有用 -schwerelos- 2024-04-22 18:06:51 北京
与网友共同朗读莎的第一部。实在是有些惊诧（大概是先前受亨五二创剧荼毒太深），原剧如此problematic，亨五的characterization实在。。。不过喜欢chorus，虽然有几段也挺突兀无聊的。读到we few we happy few还是热泪盈眶但应该是因为代到了（…）其他值得讨论的：语言/外语问题（有些好奇EM舞台上的外语呈现），莎剧中consent的问题（朋友指出的）。
0 有用 Decem 2021-10-24 14:29:48
St Crispin's Day Speech是莎士比亚里我最喜欢的一段了，真的好激励人心；而且这部感觉是最innovative的叙事方法，narrator跳出来跟我们说让我们假装舞台是战场这样的