Norwich, Shakespeare's Kings (1999)

John Julius Norwich.
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337–1485.
New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2001.

Book Information: Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• John Julius Norwich (1929–2018), Wikipedia.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 October 2018.
  • See episode notes for references.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean history.
• First Tetralogy: Henry VI, Part One; Henry VI, Part Two; Henry VI, Part Three; and Richard III.
• Henriad or Second Tetralogy: Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• English Renaissance theatre.

English History:

• England in the Late Middle Ages.
• Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453.
• Wars of the Roses, 1455–1487.

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Posts in this Blog on Shakespeare's English History Plays (so far):

• King John, 23 July 2019.
• King Edward III, 22 February 2020.
• Richard II, 22 July 2021.
• Henry IV, Part 1, 27 February 2023.
• Henry IV, Part 2, 26 March 2023.
• Henry V, 15 April 2023.
• Henry VI, Part One, 22 September 2022.
• Henry VI, Part Two, 12 October 2022.
• Henry VI, Part Three, 27 November 2022.
• Richard III, 25 December 2022.

Note: Norwich's narrative in Shakespeare's Kings covers the reigns of Edward III through Richard III (the years 1337–1485 as in Norwich's subtitle). Accordingly, Norwich does not discuss the English history plays that fall outside that period: King John and Henry VIII (and Sir Thomas More).

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Shakespeare, Henry V (1982)

William Shakespeare.
Henry V.
Edited by Gary Taylor.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition first published in 1982.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of Henry V:

• William Shakespeare. King Henry V. Edited by T.W. Craik. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 1995.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. King Henry V, Second Edition. Edited by Andrew Gurr. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• Gary Taylor, The English Department, Florida State University.
• Gary Taylor (scholar) (b. 1953), Wikipedia.
• Gary Taylor, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Taylor, Gary, 1953-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, with John Jowett and William Montgomery. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gary Taylor. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History, from the Restoration to the Present. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, editors. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, editors. Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gary Taylor and Trish Thomas Henley, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gary Taylor, et al., editors. The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean history.
• Henriad or Second Tetralogy: Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.
• Henry V, written around 1599; first performed in 1599; first printed in 1600.
  The play presents events from 1415 to 1420 (1415: Southampton Plot, Siege of Harfleur, Battle of Agincourt; 1420: Treaty of Troyes, marriage of Henry V and Catherine of Valois).
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

Historical People and Events:

~~~~~~~~~~ The English ~~~~~~~~~~
• England in the Late Middle Ages.
• House of Plantagenet.
• Edward III of England (1312–1377); King of England 1327–1377.
• Edward the Black Prince (1330–1376); Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; eldest son of Edward III; father of Richard of Bordeaux (Richard II).
• Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (1338–1368); second surviving son of Edward III; father of Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster.
• John of Gaunt (1340–1399); third surviving son of Edward III; Duke of Lancaster 1362–1399; the House of Lancaster and the House of Beaufort descended from John of Gaunt.
• Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402); fourth surviving son of Edward III.
• Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (1355–1397); fifth surviving son of Edward III.
• Isabella, Countess of Bedford (1332–1382); eldest daughter of Edward III; wife of Enguerrand VII de Coucy.
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• Richard II of England (1367–1400); Richard of Bordeaux, son of Edward the Black Prince and Joan of Kent; King of England 1377–1399; deposed in 1399.
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• Henry IV of England (1367–1413); Henry Bolingbroke; son of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster; Duke of Lancaster 1399; King of England 1399–1413.
• Henry V of England (1386–1422); Henry of Monmouth, eldest son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun; Prince of Wales 1399–1413; King of England 1413–1422.
  • Catherine of Valois (1401–1437); daughter of Charles VI of France; younger sister of Isabella of Valois (1389–1409), the second wife of Richard II; wife of Henry V; Queen of England 1420–1422; mother of Henry VI; wife of Owen Tudor; mother of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and at least five other children with Owen Tudor; grandmother of Henry Tudor (Henry VII).
  • Henry VI (1421–1471); son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois; King of England 1422–1461 and 1470–1471.
• Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (1387–1421); second son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun.
• John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford (1389–1435); third son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun.
• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390–1447); fourth and youngest son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun.
• Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (1377–1426); son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford; half-brother of Henry IV; uncle of Henry V.
~~~~~~~~~~ Other English Noblemen and Knights ~~~~~~~~~~
• Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (c.1364–1425).
• Thomas Erpingham (c.1357–1428).
• Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick (1382–1439).
• John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (c.1387–1453).
• Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (1388–1428).
• John Oldcastle (c.1370–1417); executed for his role in the Oldcastle Revolt; not a bit like Shakespeare's character Falstaff.
• John Fastolf (1380–1459), not a bit like Shakespeare's character Falstaff.
~~~~~~~~~~ English Traitors ~~~~~~~~~~
• Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham (c.1373–1415); nephew of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York 1398-1405; executed for his participation in the Southampton Plot.
• Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385–1415); second son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; husband of Anne Mortimer; father of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York; executed for his participation in the Southampton Plot.
• Thomas Grey (conspirator) (1384–1415); executed for his participation in the Southampton Plot.
~~~~~~~~~~ Progenitors of the House of York ~~~~~~~~~~
• House of York.
• Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (1338–1368); second surviving son of Edward III; father of Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster.
• Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402); fourth surviving son of Edward III.
• Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (c.1373–1415); eldest son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402); Earl of Rutland 1390–1402; Duke of Aumale/Aumerle 1398-1399; referred to as Aumerle and Rutland in Richard II; Duke of York 1402–1415; killed at the Battle of Agincourt.
• Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1385–1415); second son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; husband of Anne Mortimer; father of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York; executed for his participation in the Southampton Plot.
• Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1352–1381).
  • Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355–1382); the only child of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, the second surviving son of Edward III; (due to this close relationship to Edward III, Philippa's children and their descendants would inherit a strong claim on the English crown; "the Yorkist claim to the crown was based on descent from Edward III through Philippa, her son Roger Mortimer, and granddaughter Anne Mortimer, who married Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, a son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York"); wife of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March.
  • Elizabeth Mortimer (1371–1417); daughter of Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster and Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March; wife of Henry Percy (Hotspur); referred to as 'Kate, Lady Percy' in Henry IV, Part 1.
  • Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374–1398); eldest son of Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster and Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March; considered the heir presumptive to King Richard II.
    • Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March (1391–1425); elder son of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March; sometimes confused with his uncle Edmund Mortimer the rebel.
    • Roger Mortimer (1393–c.1413); younger son of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March.
  • Edmund Mortimer (rebel) (1376–1409); second son of Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster and Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March; captured by Owain Glyndŵr at the Battle of Bryn Glas in June 1402; married Owain Glyndŵr's daughter during his captivity.
~~~~~~~~~~ The French ~~~~~~~~~~
• History of France: State building into the Kingdom of France (987–1453).
• France in the Middle Ages, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century.
• House of Valois, royal house of France from 1328 to 1589.
• Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, 1407–1435.
• Charles VI of France (1368–1422); King of France 1380–1422.
• Isabeau of Bavaria (c.1370–1435); wife of Charles VI; Queen of France 1385–1422; mother of 12 children with Charles VI including Isabella of Valois, Catherine of Valois, and Charles VII.
• Dauphin of France:
  • Louis, January 1401 - December 1415.
  • John, December 1415 - April 1417.
  • Charles, April 1417 - October 1422.
• Catherine of Valois (1401–1437); daughter of Charles VI of France; younger sister of Isabella of Valois (1389–1409), the second wife of Richard II; wife of Henry V; Queen of England 1420–1422; mother of Henry VI; wife of Owen Tudor; mother of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and at least five other children with Owen Tudor; grandmother of Henry Tudor (Henry VII).
• Charles VII of France (1403–1461); eleventh child and fifth son of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria; King of France 1422–1461.
~~~~~~~~~~ Some French Noblemen and Knights ~~~~~~~~~~
• John the Fearless (1371–1419); Duke of Burgundy 1404-1419; assassinated by the French dauphin's counsellors.
• Philip the Good (1396–1467); Duke of Burgundy 1419-1467; allied with the English 1420-1435 following the assassination of his father until the Treaty of Arras.
• Constable of France.
• Charles I d'Albret (1368–1415); Lord of Albret; Constable of France 1402-1411 and 1413-1415; killed at the Battle of Agincourt.
• Marshal of France.
• Jean II Le Maingre (1366–1421); a Marshal of France; captured by the English at the Battle of Agincourt and died in Yorkshire.
• Jean II de Rieux (1342–1417); a Marshal of France.
~~~~~~~~~~ Events ~~~~~~~~~~
• England in the Late Middle Ages.
• 1410s in England.
• 1420s in England.
• Anglo-Scottish Wars.
• Welsh Revolt, 1400 – c.1415.
• Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, 1407–1435.
• Oldcastle Revolt, January 1414.
• Lollardy.
• Southampton Plot, 1415.
• Hundred Years' War, 1415–1453, the Lancastrian War.
• Henry V's first campaign in France, 1415.
• Siege of Harfleur, August–September 1415.
• Battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415.
• Henry V's later campaigns in France, 1417-1422.
• Siege of Rouen (1418–1419); English victory.
• Assassination of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, September 1419, by the French dauphin's counsellors.
• Treaty of Troyes, May 1420; Henry V recognized as the heir and regent of France.
• Battle of Baugé, March 1421; English defeat; Thomas, Duke of Clarence, killed.
• Siege of Meaux, October 1421 to May 1422; English victory; last military action of Henry V.
~~~~~~~~~~ Economic History ~~~~~~~~~~
• Economy of England in the Middle Ages.
• Commercial Revolution, 11th century onwards.
• Mining and metallurgy in medieval Europe.
• History of banking: Medieval Europe.
• Economic history of Europe (1000 AD–present).
• High Middle Ages.
• Late Middle Ages.
• Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 October 2018.
  • See episode notes for references.
• Melvyn Bragg, Anne Curry, Michael Jones, John Watts, "Agincourt," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 September 2004.
  • Professor Anne Curry, University of Southampton.
  • Anne Curry (b. 1954), Wikipedia.
  • Michael Jones, Department of History, University of Nottingham.
  • Michael Jones (historian) (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Professor John Watts, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
  • John Watts (historian) (b. 1964), Wikipedia.

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Bates, ed., Great German Short Stories (2003)

Great German Short Stories.
Edited by Evan Bates.
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2003.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book Series: Dover Thrift Editions.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• German literature: 19th-century.
• German literature: 20th-century.
• Austrian literature.
• Weimar Classicism [Weimarer Klassik], 1772–1805; not represented in the Dover Great German Short Stories.
• German Romanticism, late 18th to early 19th centuries.
• Naturalism (literature), late 19th century.
• Fin de siècle, late 19th century and early 20th century.
• Expressionism: Prose.

Contents of Great German Short Stories:
(and other editions of some authors' works, especially authors less familiar to me)

• Thomas Mann (1875–1955), "Death in Venice", 1912.
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), "Flagman Thiel", 1888.
  • Gerhart Hauptmann. Lineman Thiel and Other Tales. London: Angel Books, 1989.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Franz Kafka (1883–1924), "In the Penal Colony", 1919.
• E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822), "The Golden Pot", 1814, 1819.
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann. The Golden Pot and Other Tales. Oxford World's Classics. Translated by Ritchie Robertson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann. Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann. Translated by Leonard J. Kent and Elizabeth C. Knight. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1972.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann. The Best Tales of Hoffmann. Edited with an Introduction by E. F. Bleiler. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1967.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann. Tales of Hoffmann. Penguin Classics. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books, 1982, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann. The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr. Penguin Classics. Translated by Anthea Bell. London: Penguin Books, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), "How Old Timofei Died with a Song", 1900.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke. Stories of God. Translated by M. D. Herter Norton. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1932, 1963, 1992.
    [Amazon.com.]
  • Rainer Maria Rilke. Stories of God: A New Translation. Translated by Sherab Chodzin Kohn (also known as Michael H. Kohn). Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), "The Earthquake in Chile", 1807.
  • Heinrich von Kleist. The Marquise of O and Other Stories. Penguin Classics. Translated by David Luke and Nigel Reeves. London: Penguin Books, 1978.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Heinrich von Kleist. Selected Writings. Hackett Classics. Translated by David Constantine. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), "Lieutenant Gustl", 1900.
  • Arthur Schnitzler. Plays and Stories. Edited by Egon Schwarz. London: Continuum (Bloomsbury Publishing), 1982.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), "The Story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie", 1835.
  • Clemens Brentano. Honor; or, The Story of the Brave Caspar and the Fair Annerl. Introduction by T.W. Appell. London: John Chapman, 1847.
    [Archive.org.]

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Other short story collections in the Dover Thrift Editions series previously noted in this blog:

• Negri, ed., Great American Short Stories (2002).
• Negri, ed., Great English Short Stories (2005).
• Negri, ed., Great Russian Short Stories (2003).
• Negri, ed., Great French Short Stories (2004).

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