Shakespeare’s Henry V and the Ciphers of History

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/sel.2022.0003

W. Caldwell

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Abstract

Abstract:This article considers how Shakespeare’s Henry V draws upon the language of double-entry accounting to critique elitist protocols governing early modern historiographies. Rather than a merely reductive numerical procedure, double entry relied upon surprisingly literary functions—including personification—to yield a factual system lending equal legitimacy to real and fictional proper names. Beginning with an analysis of Henry V’s prologue and concluding with Henry’s tally of the dead at Agincourt, I argue that the play invokes double entry as a metaphor for theatrical representation to help underwrite its use of fictional characters and partially recoup the erasure of lower-class names from history.

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.