Here is some artwork inspired by Edward III and images from productions of the play.
Edward III: Artwork
Henry VIII: Video Introduction
Thank you to Gordon McMullan for offering our introduction to Henry VIII.
Gordon McMullan is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London. He is a general textual editor of the Norton Shakespeare, 3E, for which he edited two texts of Romeo and Juliet, and a general editor of the Arden Early Modern Drama series. His publications include The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher (1994), the Arden 3 edition of Henry VIII (2000), Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing (2007), the collaboratively authored Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016 (2018), essays in a range of periodicals including Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama, and several collections of essays. By way of a change, he is currently writing a cultural history of the cormorant.
Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.
Henry VIII: Additional Resources
Here are some resources to help guide your way into Henry VIII:
- Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
- Find good resources on Henry VIII from the Folger Shakespeare Library or the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
- View a synopsius of the play from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- Hear a full audiobook online from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival or AudioBookBuzz.
- Learn about the real Henry VIII from Five Minute Biographies.
Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.
Henry VIII: From the Folger Archive
Enjoy these images of Henry VIII from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.
Henry V: Video Introduction
Thank you to Ralph Alan Cohen for returning to offer an introduction to Henry V.
Ralph Alan Cohen is Co-Founder and Director of Mission of the ASC, Emeritus Professor of English at James Madison University, and currently Gonder Professor of Shakespeare at Mary Baldwin University, where he founded the graduate program in Shakespeare and Performance.
He was project director for the building of the Blackfriars Playhouse and has directed 30 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He founded the Studies Abroad program at James Madison University, where he won Virginia’s award for outstanding faculty. He has directed four scholar summer institutes on Shakespeare and staging sponsored by the National Endowment forthe Humanities. He is the author of ShakesFear and How to Cure It: The Complete Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare.
In 2001, he established the Blackfriars Conference. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including the Governor’s Arts Award with ASC Co- founder Jim Warren (2008), the Theo Crosby Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe in London (2009), the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Steward Award (2013), and the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker award — the first American to receive this honor (2014). He earned his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and his doctorate at Duke University, where he received the outstanding alumni award in 2016.
Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.
Henry V: Additional Resources
Here are some resources to help guide your way into Henry V:
- Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
- Find good resources on Henry V from PBS or the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- View synopses of the play from Finger Puppet Shakespeare or Bard 101x.
- Hear a full audiobook online from Oakshot Press.
- Laurence Olivier’s 1944 film version of Henry V is on YouTube.
- See a documentary on the life of Henry V from The People Profiles.
Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.
Henry V: From the Folger Archive
Enjoy these images of Henry V from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.
Henry IV Part 2: Video Introduction
Thank you to Philippa Kelly for returning to introduce Henry IV Part 2.
Philippa Kelly (Ph.D. Shakespeare) is Resident Dramaturg for the California Shakespeare Theater. She has published 11 books and 98 articles (presses include Halstead, Ashgate, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Michigan, Arden, Palgrave, Routledge, University of Western Australia Press, University of Sydney Press, Benjamin Press), her latest edited book, with Associate Editor Amrita Ramanan, being Diversity, Inclusion and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy: Case Studies From the Field, published by Routledge Press in April 2020. For her research, Philippa has been awarded many fellowships and scholarships, including a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Walter and Eliza Hall Scholarship, a Commonwealth Scholarship, and a Bly Award for Innovation in Dramaturgy from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Philippa has also been awarded grants as team leader by the Walter and Elise Haas and from the California Arts Council, allowing her to create, teach, and lead artists in delivering innovative curriculum components across Oakland schools. She is also proud to lead a year-round community theater group entitled Berkeley Theater Explorations, the purpose of which is to make dramaturgy foundational to community theater appreciation—in other words, to make theater going an active practice rather than a passive form of consumption.
Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.
Henry IV Part 2: Additional Resources
Here are some resources to help guide your way into Henry IV Part 2:
- Resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
- Watch a recent scene from Henry IV Part 2 from Shakespeare Republic: The Lockdown Chronicles, a creative project born during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Find good resources on Henry IV Part 2 from Schmoop or the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- View synopses of the play from Finger Puppet Shakespeare or Get Thee to a Summary.
- Hear a full audiobook online.
- View The Show Must Go Online’s performance of Henry IV Part 2.
Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.
Henry IV Part 2: From the Folger Archive
Enjoy these images of Henry IV Part 2 from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.
