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This 3 page paper discusses the speech by the Chorus at the beginning of Act V of Shakespeare’s “Henry the Fifth.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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final act of the play. Discussion Henry V is the third in a trilogy of plays that examines the career of the young Prince of Wales, who goes from being
a rake and the despair of his father to a painfully noble king, seemingly overnight. In his introduction to Henry V, Herschel Baker notes something that might escape readers and
audiences who were charmed by the antics of Prince Hal in Henry IV, 1 and 2: when the madcap Prince of Wales becomes King Henry V, he not only loses
his humor, he becomes something of a pompous ass. His transition into a stiff figurehead and even worse, his piety-he threatens to execute anyone who doesnt thank God for the
victory at Agincourt-has made the play controversial. It can be argued therefore that part of the Choruss purpose is to apologize for this somewhat disappointing character. Prince Hal is great
fun, but when he becomes King Henry his determination to be a principled king drains the life from him. While its fairly obvious when one hears the lines during performance,
readers may not realize that what the Chorus is doing here is similar to what the Prologue did at the beginning of the play: he asks the audience to use
their imaginations to understand whats going to happen. The Prologue noted that the "wooden O" couldnt hold the "vasty fields of France" (I.i.13,12) and here, the Chorus points out that
there are many things that have taken place that cannot "be here presented" (V.i.6). Instead, once again, the audience is asked to imagine that they can see King Henry going
to Callice; that they can see the beaches and ships; and that they can see him as he makes his way in triumph to London (V.i). Among the interesting word
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