The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0836  Friday, 29 April 2005

[1]     From:   John Briggs <
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        Date:   Thursday, 28 Apr 2005 15:49:30 +0100
        Subj:   Re: SHK 16.0826 How to Play Henry V act 1 scene 2

[2]     From:   Colin Cox <
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        Date:   Thursday, 28 Apr 2005 14:32:55 -0700
        Subj:   Re: SHK 16.0826 How to Play Henry V act 1 scene 2


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From:           John Briggs <
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Date:           Thursday, 28 Apr 2005 15:49:30 +0100
Subject: 16.0826 How to Play Henry V act 1 scene 2
Comment:        Re: SHK 16.0826 How to Play Henry V act 1 scene 2

HR Greenberg wrote:

 >My other question -- which may or may not have been asked -- is: when
 >and if was the play performed, presumably at court, before Elizabeth
 >and or James I.

"Henry V" was performed at Court, at Whitehall, on 7th January 1604/05.
Ben Jonson's "Masque of Blackness" had been performed at the previous
day, on Twelfth Night, 6th January 1604/05, and I would suggest that the
Banqueting or Masquing House was thus not available.  I suggest that the
performance of "Henry V" could have been in the Whitehall Cockpit, and
that it held the vasty fields of France.

John Briggs

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From:           Colin Cox <
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Date:           Thursday, 28 Apr 2005 14:32:55 -0700
Subject: 16.0826 How to Play Henry V act 1 scene 2
Comment:        Re: SHK 16.0826 How to Play Henry V act 1 scene 2

 >My other question -- which may or may not have been asked -- is: when
 >and if was the play performed, presumably at court, before Elizabeth and
 >or James I.

The first recorded performance of Henry V at court is as part of the
Christmas Revels on January 7th, 1605.

Colin Cox


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