Shakespeare, soccer, and spin-doctors: Staging a contemporary "Henry V"

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Hand, Richard (2004) Shakespeare, soccer, and spin-doctors: Staging a contemporary "Henry V". College Literature, 31 (4). pp. 60-71. ISSN 0093-3139

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Abstract

Taken as a whole, the history plays are the most neglected of Shakespeare's dramatic works, not least because their animation of "real" history is perceived as potentially alienating for a contemporary audience. In "Henry V", however, we find a play that is a thrilling theatrical journey and the use of the play in production from the Elizabethan period to our own time presents fascinating examples of the use of Shakespeare for purposes of propaganda or satire. The University of Glamorgan "Henry V" attempted to be a production for the twenty-first century, and used Shakespeare's text to explore contemporary ideological issues and political anxieties. The production design utilized the iconography of sport and familiar images from the news media to develop and explore the regional, national, and global concerns that the script of Shakespeare, himself the greatest adapter in the history of English theater, seems able to facilitate.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Related URLs:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115228
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2017 01:46
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 08:02
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62747
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