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The First Quarto of King Henry V

The First Quarto of King Henry V

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Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521032636
ISBN13: 9780521032636
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 23 2006
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Quarto text of King Henry V is of unique importance. It has the authority of being transcribed by actors in Shakespeare's own company as a record of their first performances of the play at the Globe in 1599. Half as long as the 1623 First Folio version, it represents a practical staging text that streamlined the script supplied by Shakespeare. Andrew Gurr examines each variant from the Folio text in detail, shedding new light on what happened to scripts that the Shakespeare company bought from their resident playwright.

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