Book description
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'.
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This book astonished me through its careful, compelling account of how art and literatureābroadly conceivedāhave an enormous impact on how we understand and access history.
By concentrating on the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and how it has been represented across the centuries, Curry reveals how much Shakespeareās Henry V has shaped our historical awareness and cultural imagining of this event.
I am no less fascinated by the conflicting accounts and interpretations of this battle, by the difficulties and different agendas that inform acts of writing about the past, than when I first read this book, cover to cover inā¦
From Amy's list on The best books on Shakespeare and history.
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