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Tempest scene 1: Staging
Although Shakespeare’s plays have been known more creative imagery and use of a stage, the opening ship during a storm scene for Tempest seems to be the most technical of all the plays to be read in this class so far even against Henry V when the chorus asks the audience to use their imagination for…
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class 3-18-13
Agenda Papers, Midterms, Revised Schedule, Synetic Tempest and Other House Keeping Quiz 6 Discussion of Performance Terms and Concepts Scenes From Branagh’s Henry V More discussion of play — Reading the Margins (the main idea) Quiz 6 1. What does Fluellan force Pistol to eat? 2. What is Henry doing when he returns to France?…
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Writing Issues and Solutions
avoid overly general intros or conclusions The introduction is the most important part of your essay. It’s where you most have the reader’s attention, it’s where the reader expects to see your specific argument, and it’s where, in laying out that specific argument, you also do yourself a favor, by providing yourself with a clear…
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The Fall of Pistol and the Commoner’s Burden
Throughout Henry V, Pistol has been known to be the comical relief for the audience. Pistol, as a soldier, is the character that can relate to the common man. What was really interesting in the final act was what happened to Pistol. After the war, Pistol learns that his wife has died and his house…
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Henry V, Act 5
In Act 5 of Henry V we see King Henry attempting to persuade Princess Katharine to marry him. Though this is made difficult by the fact that Katharine only speaks broken English and Henry only speaks broken French, she ultimately accepts his proposal heavily on the grounds that it would please her father. This could…
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Midterm answers
Name_____________________ General Instructions: Make sure you read all instructions carefully.Write your answers to sections I and II on this exam.Answer sections III and IV in your blue book. I.Very brief answers (one or two words to a sentence at most).5 points. (1 point each.) To what does a “Quarto edition” of a Shakespeare play refer?…
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The Duke of York
In Act IV scene vi of the play, Exeter updates Henry on the battle going on with the French. The English are winning overwhelmingly, but two cousins, the Duke of York and the Earl of Suffolk have been killed. The Duke of York laid next to his cousin, who has died already, and exclaims that…
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The Chorus: Cry No More, for the Lack Thereof
In Shakespeare’s Henry V, the chorus, unlike most of the playwright’s other works, appears in every Act of the play. He (or she) is one person, as usual, and this person explicitly converses with the audience to inform them about the play they are about to witness. One thing about this particular play’s chorus,…
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Henry V’s rhetoric
What I find most interesting about Henry V is that I can see a clear difference in his language compared to some of the other characters in the play. He never uses malaprop, unlike many other characters, and he is so well spoken, that it is almost like his rhetoric is his greatest weapon. He can…
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Harry le Roy
I know this has already been done, Act 4 Scene 1, but its the most interesting scene to me considering that Henry gets to see how the commoners view him as and how they act when he’s not around. The scene begins with Henry deciding to disguise himself with Erpingham’s dirty cloak after a meeting with his…