Henry IV, Part TwoThis valuable introduction to Henry IV Part Two as a performance text draws on traditional methods of performance analysis as well as theatre semiotics, historical analysis, feminism and cultural materialism. Barbara Hodgdon demonstrates how each intersects with sociocultural circumstances, producing a dialogue between a transhistorical 'Merrie England' and the historically local circumstances of present-day theatrical and political cultures. The key stagings discussed include those of Michael Redgrave, Terry Hands, Trevor Nunn and Michael Bogdanov. Ranging beyond the bounds of the conventional theatre, Barbara Hodgdon also looks at Orson Welles' film adaptation, Chimes at Midnight, and at David Giles' production for the BBC/Time-Life Shakespeare series. |
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25 June accession scene Ackland's actors Anthony Quayle Archbishop audience Bardolph Barton's Beauman Bogdanov and Pennington called camera centre character Chimes at Midnight close-up coronation costume critics crown scene death Doll Tearsheet downstage dramatic dramatises echo Elizabethan ESC productions ESC's especially exit father Festival Festival of Britain figure final Gaultree Gloucestershire Hal's Hands Hands's production Henry IV plays Henry IV's Henry's Hodgdon Hotspur's King King's kingship Lady Percy Lord Chief Justice Michael Billington Michael Bogdanov Mistress Quickly Northumberland Nunn Nunn's production Nunn's staging offstage past performance Pistol play's Poins political present-day Prince Hal Prince John production's prompt copy Quayle Quayle's Quickly's rebels Redgrave Redgrave's reviewers Richard Richard II role Royal Shakespeare Rumour seemed Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Shakespeare's plays Shallow Shrewsbury Silence social space speak spectacle spectators Stratford-upon-Avon style tavern tavern-brothel scene Terry Hands tetralogy Tillyard's tions tradition Trevor Trevor Nunn turned twentieth-century upstage Westmoreland