Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1994)

William Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Edited by Roger Warren and Stanley Wells.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 2008.

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

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Editors: Roger Warren and Stanley Wells

• Roger Warren was a Senior Lecturer of English, University of Leicester.
• Roger Warren edited four additional individual plays in The Oxford Shakespeare series: Cymbeline; Henry VI, Part Two; Pericles; The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
• Warren, Roger, 1943-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
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• Stanley Wells, his website.
• Stanley Wells (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
• Stanley Wells has written and edited many, many books related to Shakespeare. Some of them are described in the Books section of the Stanley Wells website.
• Stanley Wells, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Wells, Stanley, 1930-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles :

Shakespeare :

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Twelfth Night, probably written in 1601; first documented performance 02 February 1602; first printed in 1623 (First Folio).
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Twelfth Night (1601).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• Shakespeare's influence.
• List of idioms attributed to Shakespeare.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama :

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time :

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan [religious] settlement, "implemented from 1559 to 1563".
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Discussions of Shakespeare and Twelfth Night :

• Erik McCarthy, Introduction to William Shakespeare, YouTube, 21 January 2025.
  (The literary, social, and political context of Shakespeare; Shakespeare biography; book production; printing the plays. A very good survey.)
• Erik McCarthy, William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, YouTube, 15 February 2025.
• David Kern, Angelina Stanford, and Tim McIntosh, Twelfth Night, "Close Reads Podcast" at SubStack, "The Play's The Thing" at Apple Podcasts, 2017.
  Note: This podcast series on Twelfth Night was published on two different platforms under two different podcast names: Close Reads Podcast at SubStack and The Play's The Thing at Apple Podcasts. (The Apple Podcasts episodes may have advertisements.)
  1. Twelfth Night: Act I, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 24 November 2017.
     Angelina recommends :
     • E. M. W. Tillyard. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto & Windus, 1943; New York: Vintage Books, 1959.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     • Harold C. Goddard. The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     • Harold C. Goddard. The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
       [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
     See also:
     • Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks, The Literary Life Podcast. Episodes also at Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
  2. Twelfth Night: Act II, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 01 December 2017.
  3. Twelfth Night: Act III, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 08 December 2017.
     (The restraints on Angelina's and Tim's religious enthusiasm are released for a moment in this episode. An interesting digression.)
  4. Twelfth Night: Act IV, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 15 December 2017.
  5. Twelfth Night: Act V, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 22 December 2017.
  6. Twelfth Night: Q&A, Substack link, Apple Podcasts link, 29 December 2017.
     (While the Close Reads Podcast folk are puzzled by the animus towards Malvolio, Paul Cantor's lectures present a very clear explanation of the political, social, and religious differences between the followers of the Church of England and the radical separatist Puritan sect (Brownists). Cantor also cites plays by Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614), which also feature the ridicule of Puritan characters. Cantor addresses the Malvolio and Puritanism topic(s) in both of his lectures.)
     See also History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I.
• Paul Cantor, "Twelfth Night", Shakespeare and Politics, recorded Spring 2015, posted to YouTube 01 March 2017.
  1. Twelfth Night (Lecture 1 of 2).
     (The first 15 minutes of this lecture finishes the discussion of a previous lecture on As You Like It and the All the world's a stage / seven ages of man speech.)
  2. Twelfth Night (Lecture 2 of 2).
  Paul Cantor information:
  • Paul Cantor (1945–2022), Wikipedia.
  • In Memoriam: Wide-Ranging Literary and Pop Culture Critic Paul Cantor, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, 08 March 2022.
  • In Memoriam, Virginia Magazine, Summer/Fall 2022.
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Lover's, Third Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 23 January 2018, YouTube 29 January 2018.
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Politics, Fourth Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 27 February 2018, YouTube 02 March 2018.
  (Not about Twelfth Night but provides some political context of Shakespeare, which may be of interest in light of Paul Cantor's lecture series Shakespeare and Politics.
  Bate's lecture mainly refers to Shakespeare's Roman history plays and doesn't directly say much about the politics of the Elizabethan era.)
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare's Fame, Sixth and Final Lecture in the Series Classic Shakespeare, Gresham College, 08 May 2018, YouTube 10 May 2018.
• Melvyn Bragg, Pascale Aebischer, Michael Dobson, Emma Smith, "Twelfth Night, or What You Will," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 28 December 2023.
  (Reading List, References in Episode Notes.
  Unfortunately, these once free programs now require a subscription.)

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Some Other Recent Editions of Twelfth Night :

• William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Edited by Keir Elam. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night: or What You Will, Third Edition. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Essays about Twelfth Night :

• Harold Jenkins, "Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," pages 72-87 in Shakespeare: The Comedies: A Collection of Critical Essays, Edited by Kenneth Muir, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  (Roger Warren's and Stanley Wells' Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare edition of Twelfth Night refers to this essay several times.)
• Laurence Lerner, editor. Shakespeare's Comedies: An Anthology of Modern Criticism. Penguin Shakespeare Library. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1967.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  (The section on Twelfth Night, pages 265-283, contains four brief essays and suggestions for further reading.)
• Stanley Wells, editor. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986; Routledge, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Note :
I previously read Twelfth Night in 2024. My 2024 blog post is here.

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Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

William Shakespeare.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Edited by Sheldon P. Zitner.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2008.

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

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Note :

I previously read Much Ado About Nothing in 2023. See my 2023 blog post for more information about Other Recent Editions, the editor Sheldon P. Zitner, links to more Wikipedia Articles, and more.

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Merriman, A History of Modern Europe: Renaissance to Napoleon (2009)

John Merriman.
A History of Modern Europe: Volume 1, From the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleon, Third Edition.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
(A Fourth Edition was published in 2019.)

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

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Author:

• John M. Merriman (1946–2022), Wikipedia.
• Penelope Laurans, "In Memoriam: John M. Merriman, French historian, beloved teacher", Yale News, 26 May 2022.
• John M. Merriman, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Merriman, John M., The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• John Merriman, European Civilization, 1648-1945, HIST 202, Yale Open Courses, Fall 2008. [YouTube PlayList.]
• John Merriman, France Since 1871, HIST 276, Yale Open Courses, Fall 2007. [YouTube PlayList.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of Europe: Early modern Europe.
• Early modern Europe.

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Shakespeare, Hamlet (1987)

William Shakespeare.
Hamlet.
Edited by G. R. Hibbard.
The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1987.

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

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

Some other noteworthy editions of Hamlet :

• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Second Edition. Edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Third Edition. Edited by Philip Edwards. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Second Edition. Edited by Robert S. Miola. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• G. R. (George Richard) Hibbard (born 1915) was Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• Hibbard Prize for Shakespeare Studies, English undergraduate awards, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo.
• Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard. Edited by J.C. Gray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  The preface to this book, viewable on Google Books, tells a little bit about Professor Hibbard.
• G. R. Hibbard, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Hibbard, G. R. (George Richard), 1915-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• G. R. Hibbard. Thomas Nashe: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Hibbard. The Making of Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost. Edited by G. R. Hibbard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Love's Labour's Lost is here.
• Prof. Hibbard also edited these other plays for the Penguin Shakespeare: Coriolanus; Timon of Athens; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Taming of the Shrew.
  Hibbard also edited an edition of Ben Johnson's Bartholomew Fair.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean tragedy.
• Hamlet, written between 1599 and 1601; printed in 1603 (a Bad Quarto), 1604/5 Second Quarto, 1623 First Folio.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Hamlet (1599-1601).
• Phrases from Hamlet in common English.
• Shakespeare's influence.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.
• Revenge play.
• Revenge tragedy.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• 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.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Carol Rutter, Sonia Massai, "Hamlet," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 28 Dec 2017.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare, "Elizabethan Revenge," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 June 2009.
  • Elizabethan literature.
  • Revenge play.
  • Revenge tragedy.
  • Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), The Spanish Tragedy, written between 1582 and 1592.
  • Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC – AD 65), Thyestes.
  • John Marston (1576–1634), Antonio's Revenge, 1600 or 1601.
  • William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Hamlet, written between 1599 and 1601.
  • Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), The Revenger's Tragedy, first performed 1606.

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Shakespeare, As You Like It (1993)

William Shakespeare.
As You Like It.
Edited by Alan Brissenden.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1993.

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

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

Some other noteworthy editions of As You Like It :

• William Shakespeare. As You Like It. Edited by Juliet Dusinberre. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. As You Like It, Third Edition. Edited by Michael Hattaway. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• Alan Theo Brissenden (1932-2020).
• Alan Theo Brissenden, The University of Adelaide.
• BRISSENDEN, Dr Alan - Interview, 8 February 2013, The University of Adelaide.
• Alan and Elizabeth Brissenden Prize in Early Modern Drama, The University of Adelaide.
• Alan Brissenden. Shakespeare and the Dance. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1981.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Alan Brissenden, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Brissenden, Alan, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• As You Like It, written in 1599-1600; first printed in 1623.
• "All the world's a stage", As You Like It, act 2, scene 7, line 139.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: As You Like It (1599-1600).

English Renaissance Literature, Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• 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.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

William Shakespeare.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Edited by Sheldon P. Zitner.
Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2008.

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

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

Some other recent editions of Much Ado About Nothing:

• William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing, Second Edition. Edited by Claire McEachern. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing, Third Edition. Edited by F. H. Mares. Introduction by Travis D. Williams. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• Sheldon P. Zitner, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Zitner, Sheldon P., The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• Much Ado About Nothing, written in 1598-1599; first printed in 1600.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Much Ado About Nothing (1598-1599).

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• 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.

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Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1990)

William Shakespeare.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Edited by T. W. Craik.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition first published in 1990.

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

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

Some other noteworthy editions of The Merry Wives of Windsor:

• William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Edited by Giorgio Melchiori. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Second Edition. Edited by David Crane. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• Thomas Wallace Craik, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Craik, T. W. (Thomas Wallace), The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Dick Watson, "Tom Craik obituary", The Guardian, 03 December 2017.
• T. W. Craik. The Tudor Interlude: Stage, Costume, and Acting. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1958.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Craik, Thomas Wallace, encyclopedia.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, written around 1597; first performance probably in April 1597; first printed in 1602; first documented performance in 1604.
• John Falstaff, a character created by Shakespeare.
• 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.

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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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