Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy Study Guide
Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy Study Guide
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All you need to know about William Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and beautifully designed to help students understand, and enjoy, great works of literature. They are perfect for coursework, revision and exam preparation. Connell Guides are also great reads themselves scholarly, yet approachable and entertaining.
The vitality of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays has ensured its endurance for more than four centuries. Brilliant in the way it relates high life to low life - against Henry V's stirring "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!" echoes Falstaff's "Give me life, say I" - it is rich in its characterisation, memorable in its rhetoric, crafty in its plotting. Cedric Watts, who has been lecturing on Shakespeare for 40 years, argues that this is not simply a sequence of wonderfully dramatic, entertaining plays; it is part of England s cultural identity, and continues, even now, to contribute to the shaping of that identity.
