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Agincourt /
Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. Everybody thinks they know what the battle was about. Even John Lennon, aged 12, wrote a poem and drew a picture headed 'Agincourt'....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Great battles (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Great Battles: Agincourt; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 2: Agincourt: The Battle in Context; Preparations; The Campaign; The Battle; The Killing of the Prisoners and the Aftermath of the Battle; A Decisive Battle?; 3: 'The Noble Beginning' or 'The Accursed Day'? Early Interpretations; England: The Noble Beginning; France: The Accursed Day; 4: 'Alarms and Excursions': The Enduring Influence of Shakespeare's Agincourt; Sixteenth-Century Histories and the Battle of Agincourt; Shakespeare's Agincourt Created.
- Shakespeare's Agincourt ReplayedOlivier's Agincourt (1944); Branagh's Agincourt (1989); Conclusion; 5: 'France's Bane and England's Glory! 'Agincourt, War, and National Identity; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; 1815-1914; The First World War; 6: 'Agincourt PLC': Traditions, Myths, and Creations; Agincourt Ancestors and the Search for Gentility; The Welsh; The V-Sign; Agincourt Objects and Legends; The Created Agincourt; Literature; Art; Music; What's in a Name?; 7: 'Rival Experts Prepare To Do Battle over Agincourt'; Agincourt Research.