Robert Lane, in ELH (Spring 1994), Dept. of English, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md. 21218.
When Kenneth Branagh's much-praised film Henry V appeared in 1989, many critics com- pared it with Laurence Olivier's 19944 movie ver- sion of the play. They said that Branagh presents 'a much darker world" and a more complex King Henry than the earlier film did. That may be so. But when Branagh's version is compared with Shakespeare's, argues Lane, an English pro- fessor at North Carolina State...