Henry V (Michael Thatcher) wooing wooing French Princess Katherine (Madison Prentiss). Credit: Photo by Anthony Gollab, Courtesy of the University of Houston Shakespeare’s great war pageant Henry V ...

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The Anglo-Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson once famously defined a nation as “an imagined political community” in which all citizens or residents have at least a vague sense of connection ...

Wars of the past are viewed by many as a necessary evil, and certain battles are even thought of as glorious or grand. This perspective overlooks the lives lost on both sides, the trauma so many ...

In their final, bitter, conversation – taken from Henry IV part II – the old king delivers a warning about the grim realpolitik that enabled him to cling to power. “God knows, my son/By what by-paths ...

Legend has it that Winston Churchill asked Laurence Olivier to make a film version of Shakespeare’s Henry V to help raise British morale during the worst days of World War II. It was not an entirely ...

If it were possible to grittily reboot Shakespeare, the result might look something like The King. Based on the Henriad — the series of plays including Richard II; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part ...

"I really like the idea of theater being so mobile that you can just throw it in a trunk or a suitcase." Julia Gayden Nelson, artistic director at Bare Bones Shakespeare, loves to mix it up with The ...

There’s no “muse of fire” prologue in this boldly political new Henry V, a co-production with Headlong, Leeds Playhouse and the Royal and Derngate. Instead we are plunged into darkness to hear the ...

The BYU Young Company is “rizzing” up younger audiences with performances of “Henry V” to help Shakespeare’s classic tales “gain aura” among the next generation. Shakespeare plays have been widely ...