Pelican Version Of Shakespeare Essay

I will be going over the Pelican version of the text, presenting reason on why I believe the audience of this play was aimed towards the everyday man, then comparing and contrasting different versions of Henry V and speak about their audience, and finishing it off by talking Oliver’s adaptation on the film and who he was trying to capture as his audience for the film.
As the prologue stated in the beginning of the book, “Can this cockpit hold the vast fields of France? Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?” –Enter Prologue, lines 9-14. The chorus with prologue comes in and set the expectation of the play with these lines. It is telling the audience that they come to require some work from …show more content…
The Pelican version had 119 pages of content and the Folger edition has 236 pages of content. What this comes to tell me besides that the Folger edition has more page, is that it also has more information that one can use to understand the play better.
As it comes to state on the very first page of Folger’s edition, “ Designed to make Shakespeare’s great plays available to all readers, The New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare’s plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries.” This comes to let me know that this is a book for an audience that is coming to learn about Shakespeare, whether it be a student like how we were in the beginning of the semester or someone who wants to get into Shakespeare but might not understand the writing too well.
The book contains some background information from the Henry V play and how it was one of his famous war plays, gives us information about Henry’s French descent, and talks about the language that is used throughout the play so the audience could come to understand and have more background about the play. As compared to the Pelican edition is just having the publisher’s notes and not as much information about the

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