The first quarto of King Henry V
By: edited by Andrew Gurr.
Contributors: Gurr, Andrew.
Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422 -- Drama; Great Britain -- History -- Henry V, 1413-1422 -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: "The quarto text of Henry V is of unique importance. It has the authority of being transcribed by actors in Shakespeare's own company as a record of their original staging of the play at the Globe in 1599. In this new edition Andrew Gurr argues that the Henry V quarto is probably the best surviving example of a Shakespeare playscript as it was actually performed.

The speed with which it came to press only a year after its first staging marks its status as an official version of the play first seen by Elizabethan audiences. As a practical staging text it therefore does much to shed new light on what happened to scripts that the Shakespeare company bought from their resident playwright."--BOOK JACKET.