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Henry V: Alexander Leggatt

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William Shakespeare
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SOURCE: "Henry V," in Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and The Roman Plays, Routledge, 1988, pp. 114-38.

Below, Leggatt considers possible readings of the play, its depiction of war, and its portrait of political authority. He invokes the need for audiences to be engaged as well as skeptical, particularly with respect to appraising Henry, whom the critic sees as a man motivated by obediencethe same virtue that Canterbury cites as the means of keeping all parts of an ideal nation working in harmony for a common purpose.

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