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These Valiant Dead : Renewing the Past in Shakespeare's Histories
author
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Jones, Robert C.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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087745308X
print isbn13
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9780877453086
ebook isbn13
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9781587291197
language
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English
subject
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Histories, Great Britain--History--1066-1687--Historiography, Historical drama, English--History and criticism, Kings and rulers in literature, Great Britain--In literature, Heroes in literature.
publication date
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1991
lcc
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PR2982.J66 1991eb
ddc
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822.3/3
subject
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Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Histories, Great Britain--History--1066-1687--Historiography, Historical drama, English--History and criticism, Kings and rulers in literature, Great Britain--In literature, Heroes in literature.
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These Valiant Dead
Renewing the Past in Shakespeare's Histories
Robert C. Jones
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1991 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1991
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jones, Robert C., 1936 These valiant dead: renewing the past in Shakespeare's histories / by Robert C. Jones.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-308-X (alk. paper) 1. Shakespeare, William, 15641616Histories. 2. Great BritainHistory10661687Historiography. 3. Historical drama, EnglishHistory and criticism. 4. Kings and rulers in literature. 5. Great Britain in literature. 6. Heroes in literature. I. Title. PR2982.J66 1991 90-46586 822.3'3dc20 CIP
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To Kathy
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Contents
Introduction: "Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead"
ix
1 1 Henry VI "From Their Ashes Shall Be Reared / A Phoenix"
1
2 2 & 3 Henry VI "Undoing All as All Had Never Been"
18
3 Richard III "O, But Remember This Another Day"
31
4 King John "Perfect Richard" versus "This Old World"
46
5 Richard II "Let Not Tomorrow Then Ensue Today"
69
6 1 Henry IV "Is Not the Truth the Truth?"
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7 2 Henry IV "What Perils Past, What Crosses to Ensue"
111
8 Henry V "Remember with Advantages"
125
Notes
155
Index
169
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Introduction: "Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead"
Behind the turbulent action of Shakespeare's histories stands a figure who is often called upon by the embattled characters onstage to place their current problems in the perspective he affords themand, of course, to offer us the advantage of that perspective as well. From the dead march that signals the opening of 1 Henry VI to the Chorus's closing lines at the end of Henry V, the image of the lost leader is evoked time and again to set and characterize the present scene by those who remember him and feel his loss. As we in the audience look "back" at the historical figures onstage, they look back at him, and our perspective on them deepens through their own recollections. Sometimes the remembered heroa Henry V, or a Hotspuris one who struts
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or frets onstage himself in the course of the histories. But othersthe Black Prince, Edward III, Richard Cordelionwho never actually appear in person serve as significant presences when they are recalled by those who do.
I have begun by calling this remembered hero a lost leader, but in this case there is a great deal in a name. I want to strip away from this one the clouds of infamy that it comes trailing from Browning's poem. The former leader evoked in these plays is lost to the present because he is dead, because he now belongs to the past, not because he has turned his coat or betrayed his cause. But to say that he is lost to the present does suggest the negative, or his negation, and its impact on a world that feels diminished (or threatened, or ruined) by his passing:
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth. (1HVI, I, i, 17)1
This, however, is only one side of the story. Though such a loss and its consequences are frequently the burden of remembrance, there is also a positive potential in the memory of the past leader that belies the very notion that he is lost. Consider the opposite impulses of the following recollections of the Black Prince, both addressed to young monarchs by their elder counsellors:
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