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... audience. I confess I never made much sense out of a lot of the byplay between Pistol, Bardolph, Fluellen and others in Henry V until I saw Olivier's play. I agree with you that reading the classics should be encouraged by all means possible, but not in the way the schools usually do it.
... 0-Coriolanus 11-Othello 12-As You Like It 13-Measure for Measure 14-The Comedy of Errors 15-Richard III 16-Henry V 17-The Winter's Tale 18-Pericles, Prince of Tyre 19-The Tempest Anthropology: 20-The Riddle of Amish Culture by Donald B. Kraybill 21-Nisa by ...
24, Twelfth Night by Shakespeare 25. Henry V by Shakespeare 26. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare 27. Macbeth by Shakespeare 28. The Stranger by Albert Camus The Shakespeare was on audio with great explanatory pieces which really illuminated the text and made it enjoyable. ...
Branagh's version of Much Ado About Nothing certainly tops the list. I like Olivier's Henry V, too. (I haven't seen his Hamlet yet.) I'll have to give a good think on what else I've seen.
... (see Note #2) * major historical events featured in books, especially for fiction. I'd like to see Shakespeare's Henry V linked to other books which feature the same battle. . Note #1 For example, the Wiki page for Curse of the Narrows might list other books ...
I can't tell if thorold is hazarding a (correct) guess in 43, but the quote is from King Henry the Fifth.
Dorothy Sayers The Nine Tailors Three To Get Ready Hans Ostrom Henry V Shakespeare Three For the Chair Rex Stout Simplicity Lessons: 12 Step Guide to Living Linda Breen Pierce
7. Beowulf 8. Titus Andronicus 9. Henry V (All rereads for courses I am teaching.) ivyd in 888 Challenge : Ivy's 888 (Jan 13, 2008, 2:50pm)... II 4. The First Part of King Henry IV 5. The Second Part of King Henry IV 6. The Merry Wives of Windsor 7. The Life of King Henry V 8. The First Part of King Henry VI 9. The Second Part of King Henry VI 10. The Third Part of King Henry VI 11. The Tragedy of King Ri ...woolylogic in The Green Dragon : High school curriculum (Nov 22, 2007, 12:37pm)... Great Gatsby Winesburg Ohio Cannery Row The Heart is a Lonely Hunter A Midsummer Night’s Dream Macbeth Henry V Twelfth Night Othello The Armada The Elizabethan World Picture The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories A Day in the Li ...Cariola in The Globe : Best Performances (Nov 18, 2007, 11:18pm)... in London back in 1985 and saw some remarkable performances that year: Antony Sher in Richard III, Kenneth Branagh in Henry V, Ian McKellan in Coriolanus. All great performances.Scorbet in Common Knowledge and WikiThing : Field suggestions (Oct 18, 2007, 11:12am)>160 I don't know all that much about the LCSH, are how they are applied. But I do think that Shakespeare's Henry V should be on a list of books featuring the Battle of Agincourt, and a biography of Oliver Cromwell on the list of books about the English Civil War. Ex_Libris in What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - July 2007 (Jul 27, 2007, 11:33pm)... Collins A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth - recommended to me in this forum Felicia's Journey by William Trevor The Stories of Heinrich Boll by Heinrich Boll Wildlife by Richard Ford Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley Nightwood by Djuna Barnes East is East ...AnnaClaire in In the Original : What's your latest original language acquisition? (Jun 16, 2007, 10:09pm)... if it does, my most recent original-language acquisitions were yesterday's purchase (used) of William Shakespeare's Henry V and Jane Austen's Emma. Both are in the original English: one in the dialect of Elizabethan times, and I'll keep an eye peeled for spare U's in ...AnnaClaire in What Are You Reading Now? : What book came into your home today? - June 2007 (Jun 16, 2007, 6:02pm)None today, but yesterday I bought Jane Austen's Emma and William Shakespeare's Henry V at the secondhand books store. Last weekend, it was A Season's Tale and A Treasury of Knitting Patterns -- the latter's a classic and the former's published by/for Row ...steiac in Political Conservatives : Liberals good, Conservatives evil (Apr 29, 2007, 9:34pm)The last Democrat you could trust on foreign policy was Scoop Jackson. For a great bio: Henry M. Jackson: A Lifetime in Politics. Lieberman was one, but they ran him out of the party. Sad.uffishread in Book talk : Memorable First Sentences (Apr 25, 2007, 10:36am)... of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! William Shakespeare - Henry Vkerryg in Book talk : Anyone else out there who does not lot Shakespeare? (Apr 8, 2007, 6:17pm)... His classical plagiarism knows no bounds! Often he is hugely un-original. Yet some of his rhetoric is sublime - namely in Henry V. And the language of Hamlet is fantastic. The comedies are my least-favourite, i may even go so far as to say I hate them. Dull, dull, dull.almigwin in U of Chicago College alumni and other Great Books Geeks : interesting professors and special experiences (Mar 24, 2007, 8:41pm)... didn't pay unless you studied for at least 3 months. Some of the great and now famous professors like David Riesman, Henry Rago, and William H. McNeill were lecturing, and Rago had a discussion section on poetry that was so crowded we sat on windowsills and radiators. There was a ...darrow in The Green Dragon : Please share us a few lines from something you are currently reading. (Mar 24, 2007, 1:09pm)#27 Go for it Tane and let us know which are your favourites. I always liked Henry V. Great speeches, interesting characters and some of it is even mildly funny. I liked A Midsummer Nights Dream too. An early work of fantasy worthy of discussion at The Green Dragon
... II 4. The First Part of King Henry IV 5. The Second Part of King Henry IV 6. The Merry Wives of Windsor 7. The Life of King Henry V 8. The First Part of King Henry VI 9. The Second Part of King Henry VI 10. The Third Part of King Henry VI 11. The Tragedy of King Ri ...
... Great Gatsby Winesburg Ohio Cannery Row The Heart is a Lonely Hunter A Midsummer Night’s Dream Macbeth Henry V Twelfth Night Othello The Armada The Elizabethan World Picture The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories A Day in the Li ...
... in London back in 1985 and saw some remarkable performances that year: Antony Sher in Richard III, Kenneth Branagh in Henry V, Ian McKellan in Coriolanus. All great performances.
>160 I don't know all that much about the LCSH, are how they are applied. But I do think that Shakespeare's Henry V should be on a list of books featuring the Battle of Agincourt, and a biography of Oliver Cromwell on the list of books about the English Civil War.
... Collins A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth - recommended to me in this forum Felicia's Journey by William Trevor The Stories of Heinrich Boll by Heinrich Boll Wildlife by Richard Ford Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley Nightwood by Djuna Barnes East is East ...
... if it does, my most recent original-language acquisitions were yesterday's purchase (used) of William Shakespeare's Henry V and Jane Austen's Emma. Both are in the original English: one in the dialect of Elizabethan times, and I'll keep an eye peeled for spare U's in ...
None today, but yesterday I bought Jane Austen's Emma and William Shakespeare's Henry V at the secondhand books store. Last weekend, it was A Season's Tale and A Treasury of Knitting Patterns -- the latter's a classic and the former's published by/for Row ...
The last Democrat you could trust on foreign policy was Scoop Jackson. For a great bio: Henry M. Jackson: A Lifetime in Politics. Lieberman was one, but they ran him out of the party. Sad.
... of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! William Shakespeare - Henry V
... His classical plagiarism knows no bounds! Often he is hugely un-original. Yet some of his rhetoric is sublime - namely in Henry V. And the language of Hamlet is fantastic. The comedies are my least-favourite, i may even go so far as to say I hate them. Dull, dull, dull.
... didn't pay unless you studied for at least 3 months. Some of the great and now famous professors like David Riesman, Henry Rago, and William H. McNeill were lecturing, and Rago had a discussion section on poetry that was so crowded we sat on windowsills and radiators. There was a ...
#27 Go for it Tane and let us know which are your favourites. I always liked Henry V. Great speeches, interesting characters and some of it is even mildly funny. I liked A Midsummer Nights Dream too. An early work of fantasy worthy of discussion at The Green Dragon
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