false <![CDATA[King Henry IV, Part 1]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512929m/13020.jpg 13020 142 David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority. 3335240 book 1597 King Henry IV, Part 1 total:3454|5:896|4:1198|3:969|2:332|1:59| 3454 12902 4303 106 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974 Thu Feb 19 17:42:31 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 10:20:48 -0700 2009 Othello isn't racist. The Merchant of Venice isn't antisemitic. And, I understand, The Taming of the Shrew should be read ironically, and not as straightforward instructions on how to get a bitch to show some respect.

So I imagine that it's quite feasible to consider He...more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 13:04:38 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 04:11:03 -0800 2009
First broadcast 1977 (R7 repeat 2004, 2005)

Cast:
Robert Lang, Alan Howard, Brewster Mason, Peter Egen,
Donald Huston, David Buck, Susan Thomas, Maurice
Denham, Michael Godfrey, John Holli...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 10 19:21:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 20:15:34 -0700 2009
The play opens on Henry IV, who in his youth de-throned Richard II. Henry IV is now aging and f...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Oct 29 02:37:17 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 02:44:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Jul 15 09:04:44 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 11:57:04 -0700 2009
Well, following my reading of Julius Ceaser in high school, I didn't attempt a Shakesp...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 23 14:32:54 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 14:36:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 12 20:39:28 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 21:23:41 -0700 2009 Richard IV Part One from Richard II which I am more or less doing. I have been reading the histories not really in order but one close on the next and digging into the tribulations of Bo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 17:39:01 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 17:43:33 -0700 2009
"But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 22 08:25:58 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:31:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 21:04:33 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 14:01:52 -0700 2009
Shakes always makes English history exciting and poetic, and the Henry VIs are now my favorites. Not only are there som...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 11:56:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 21:32:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 18:34:51 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 14:43:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Jan 23 21:02:39 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 13 19:47:50 -0700 2008 William Shakespeare’s history plays is really daunting, but I have to say that once I got into them, the two plays I read, including Henry IV: Part I, were some of the most enjoyable Shakespeare I’ve read.

I enjoyed Henry IV: Part I mostly because Prince Hal, Henry V, was su...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Sep 25 05:24:19 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 08:52:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 26 10:47:39 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 23:02:08 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 10:47:39 -0700 2009
"I had rather live//With cheese and garlic in a windmill far//Than feed on cates and have him talk to me//In any summer house in Christendom." Hotspur, 63.

"Do thou amend thy face, and ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 15:37:28 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 15:49:10 -0700 2009
But not all is as appears as young Henry has...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 19:21:17 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 19:26:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 11:45:34 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 16:28:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 22:27:44 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 22:31:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983 Thu Jan 01 12:43:03 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 12:48:58 -0800 2009 "Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world"
To which Hal replies "I can, I will"
Still breaks my heart whe...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=13020