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Branagh’s Henry V: An Example Of Pluralistic Shakespeare
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In her essay “Shakespeare and Film: A Question of Perspective,” Catherine Belsey argues for the incapability of film to offer the multiple interpretations that the Elizabethan stage presented. “Film is the apotheosis of the modern, and it is .... Middle of Term Paper
... this cock-pit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?” (11-14) Branagh chooses to display his single-man chorus walking through a torn-down theater while speaking these words. I do not think he does this to imply the theater is dead, or to say that only film can portray truth in today’s image-based society. Instead, the speech ironically implies the realistic nature of film when the Chorus tells the viewer to “Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them, printing their proud hoofs i’th’ receiving earth…” (26-27). That the viewer will eventually ... |
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