[lbo-talk] ....reminder

[C. G. Estabrook]

But he did build a good deal of ambiguity into his portraits of war
leaders and indeed of monarchs, including the Tudors.  E.g., from his
text, you could make a good case for Henry V as a war criminal. (The
matter is considered in an interesting article by that title by British
academic John Sutherland.) --CGE

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> Besides, Shakespeare liked nothing better than whipping the citizenry
> into a patriotic fervor. He wrote a whole cycle of history plays to
> justify the Tudors' ways to Englishmen. Think: Henry V's St. Crispin's
> day speech at Agincourt, John of Gaunt's dying speech in Richard II .
> . . jks