My research focuses on two of William Shakespeare’s English history plays: Henry IV, Part One and Henry IV, Part Two through the lens of the character Prince Hal. The project had two components: an academic paper and the creation of a one-hour version of Henry IV, Part One that was modeled after the Hofstra Shakespeare Festival.
The academic portion consisted of surveying scholarship surrounding the two plays’ compositions and relationship to each other — whether or not they are unified and continuous or two separate pieces that share characters — as well as analyzing the way Shakespeare constructs Prince Hal through the development of his language and an overarching competition between prose and verse. Scholars consistently overlook the mechanics of verse and how it relates to the characters...
For more information:
https://sites.hofstra.edu/research-day/2024/06/04/george-concannon/
