You'll have seen Kenneth Branagh's film of Henry V. During or right after the screening take notes which you can use in precept to help you discuss questions like these: How do production choices alter or otherwise affect one's reading of a scene or character? How is a theatrical (or filmic) production also a critical "reading"? How does this production agree or disagree with or alter the ideal production you carry in your head from your own reading of the play? Your notes and the class discussion will form the basis of your essay. Go to Workbook for an excerpt from Branagh's own essay about his screenplay.
Your assignment is to write a 1000 word (4 pp.) essay on an interpretive issue raised by your viewing of the Branagh production. Presumably the director has made his production choices for a reason; those choices are neither right nor wrong, but if they are interesting they should yield a vision--an interpretation or reading--of the play. You may want to start with a fairly general statement about the Branagh treatment, and then narrow your focus to the particular scene, incident, or character, which you should discuss in as much informative detail as possible, paying attention both to the text you've read and the film you've seen.