Review: All the Blood and Thunder of a Very English Play ; Henry V the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon *****

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Michael Boyd's complete histories cycle comes to a stunning conclusion with this magnificent production of Shakespeare's most selfconsciously English play.

The momentum which has characterised this entire cycle on the involving deep thrust stage of the Courtyard reaches such a sense of climax here that you have to remind yourself that, in terms of the historical narrative, this play belongs somewhere around the middle.

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Review: All the Blood and Thunder of a Very English Play ; Henry V the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon *****

It is a play heavily overladen with a sense of English identity - not least through the Olivier film which connected Henry V's "f...

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