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A five page paper looking at the way this important figure in English history is portrayed by William Shakespeare.
The paper argues that Shakespeare believed Henry’s commanding qualities of leadership to have been necessary to stabilize the nation, and not indicative of megalomania. No other sources.
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be defensive about it. On the one hand his theater was heavily patronized by the throne, and he had every need to try to continuously curry their favor; and on
the other hand, everyone knew that the Tudors had in fact usurped the throne from the preceding dynasty in a country where leadership was supposed to be passed down through
hereditary succession. Shakespeares job, therefore, was to attempt to prove that the Tudors won their right to rule because they were unquestionably better suited to it, and the country was
a better place as a result. In the case of Henry Tudor, the protagonist of Henry V, Shakespeare chose two points of argument: his contention that Henry deserved to
rule because he was a better military general and a better administrator than the man he deposed; and his further contention that Henry deserved to rule because he was a
more moral man. Shakespeares theme in Henry V is loyalty versus treason, and thus deals not only with the question of ones hereditary right to rule, but also with
the fate of traitors and the benefit of loyalty to a strong and proud state. The play continues the story begun in Henry IV Parts I and II; his protagonist,
Henry Tudor, is the same person that Shakespeare called Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts I and II, except that lovable, feckless, and happy-go-lucky Hal he has grown into his
fathers name, Henry, and his fathers role -- King of England. Despite Hals less-than-auspicious beginning, Shakespeare demonstrates a tremendous admiration for the young King, whom he believes to have overcome
his earlier irresponsibility to become an exemplary monarch and the picture of the model Christian King. Shakespeare includes a few references to Henrys dissolute adolescence: in the very first
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