Shakespeare’s Henry V, Broadway’s Hamilton, and the Uses of History

General resources

• Course schedule
• Glossary of words with changed meanings
• Resources
• Henry-Hamilton timeline

Class 1 – February 13

• Introduction to Henry V
• Royal lineage in Henry V
• Plantagenet to Tudor kings
• Class 1 Slide show with video links
• Class 1 Recording

Class 2 – February 20

• Anglo-Irish Nine-Years War
• Henry V in English memory
• Medieval Anglo-French nexus
• Class 2 Slide show with video links
• Class 2 recording

Class 3 – February 27

• Henry V – Romantic hero or what?
• Henry V – Two famous film productions
• Shakespeare and religion
• Henry V key to Holinshed Chronicles
• Class 3 Slide show with video links
• Class 3 Recording

Class 4 – March 6

• On the cutting of throats in Henry V
• Three commoners as soldiers in Henry V
• Alexander the Great in Henry V
• Hilary Mantel Reith Lectures
• Class 4 Recording
• Slide show with video links

Class 5 – March 20 (Class cancelled on March 13)

• Hamilton lyrics
• Chernow prologue
• Class 5 Recording
• Class 5 Slide show

Class 6 – March 27 

• Freeman – Will the real Alexander Hamilton please stand up
• Hamilton timeline
• Class 6 recording
• Class 6 – Slides with video links

Class 7 – April 3

• Hamilton show links
• Slavery abolition timeline
• High school course from ‘Historians on Hamilton’
• Class 7 recording
• Class 7 – Slides with video links

Class 8 – April 10

• Musical references in ‘Hamilton’
• McWhorter on American musical theater
• Politics and political reception of ‘Hamilton’
• ‘Hamilton’ and history musicals
• Alexander Hamilton-slavery-race in a revolutionary generation
• If you’re thirsty for more
• Class 8 – Slides with video links
• Class 8 – recording