[lbo-talk] ....reminder

[joanna bujes]

Yeah, even in Henry IV, Hal only looks good compared to the stereotyped 
Scots and Falstaff. And his kingship is clearly, in some way, a step 
down --  Shakespeare celebrates his consummate political skills, but 
regretfully.

Joanna

C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>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
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>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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>>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
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