NDLI: Understanding Shakespeare’s Perfect Prince: Henry V, the Ethics of Office and the French Prisoners

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Understanding Shakespeare’s Perfect Prince: Henry V, the Ethics of Office and the French Prisoners

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Author	Condren, Conal
Copyright Year	2017
Description	William Shakespeare's vision of the perfect Christian prince actually displays a morally dubious character has been a longstanding minority view, now close to a critical commonplace. As Shakespeare's Henry galvanized his troops to victory against great odds, so according to Andrew Gurr, the Chorus has persuaded earlier critics and modern film-makers of Henry's peerless conduct. It has been a triumph of rhetoric over reality. This chapter focuses on a crucial issue superficially supporting the thesis of a morally damaged Henry, his killing of the French prisoners during the battle of Agincourt. It is necessary first to say more about the confusion of our cultural and ethical expectations with those of the early modern world and then to outline something of that superseded moral vision. The implicitly critical picture of Henry sometimes appears to depend upon a slippage between reading characters as images of vice and virtue created for the stage. Book Name: The Shakespearean International Yearbook
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Ending Page	213
Page Count	19
Starting Page	195
DOI	10.4324/9781315264219-11
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-05-15
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: The Shakespearean International Yearbook Literary Theory and Criticism Morally Vision Ethics Shakespeare's Prince Perfect Prisoners French Characters
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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