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Back to ‘normal’? Back to ‘normal’?
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Legitimacy as an achieved effect Legitimacy as an achieved effect
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A just war and a Christian prince? A just war and a Christian prince?
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Perils of popularity tamed and enticements of honour resisted Perils of popularity tamed and enticements of honour resisted
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A Machiavel for good: can even the best of princes get to heaven? A Machiavel for good: can even the best of princes get to heaven?
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Peace, war and the politics of the succession Peace, war and the politics of the succession
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Essex – again Essex – again
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15 Henry V and the fruits of legitimacy
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Published:January 2017
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Abstract
This chapter argues that from the outset of Henry V, the transformation of both the king and the polity consequent upon Henry's accession is figured as almost complete. In the Henry IV plays, Shakespeare had put a great deal of energy into showing that the miracle of the king's two bodies portrayed in the Famous victories had been no such thing; not a sudden transformation but a long-planned, and entirely calculated performance or facsimile of such a transformation. However, at the start of Henry V, Shakespeare went out of his way to show both that that was precisely how the transformation of Hal into Henry was perceived by even the most learned and eminent of his new subjects and that that perception had worked an almost miraculous transformation on the condition of the body politic.
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