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Title: | “All would be royal”: The effacement of disunity in Shakespeare’s Henry V |
Authors: | Leahy, WJ |
Keywords: | Henry V;Shakespeare;Williams;Common soldier;Greenblatt;Wilders |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | The Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft |
Citation: | Shakespeare Jahrbuch (Spring 2002) pp. 89-98, Apr 2002 |
Series/Report no.: | Shakespeare Jahrbuch;138/2002 |
Abstract: | This paper seizes on the unresolved moment of conflict between Henry and the common soldier Williams in Shakespeare's Henry V to demonstrate the ways in which traditional criticism has occluded dissent and co-opted the common soldier on behalf of a perceived empathy towards the king on the part of the author. A look at documented evidence shows that Shakespeare was articulating a common reality in this unresolved moment, one which dsiplays rather than effaces contemporary discontent with the lot of the ordinary soldier. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/982 |
ISBN: | 3897095025 |
Appears in Collections: | English and Creative Writing Dept of Arts and Humanities Research Papers |
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