ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Theatricality
Document Summary
February 24, 2010: key concepts, genre of the history play. The 2nd edition was used as an encyclopedia and travel guide about the history of england. It became an important source of information for poets and writers at the time. It also looks at england"s failure to claim france: this play tells the story of the final attempt of this failure, the play is being staged in the era of relative peace (after civil war?) Plot: henry iv: henry"s father asks him to seek foreign quarrels. So henry in this play, henry tries to take back land that previously belonged to england. The only thing that holds back the red army from taking france land is this relationship between catherine and henry: tension between achievement & failure, truth of memory & reliability of history. Justifiable war & war of self-interest: gender, rank & kind ( king is but a man )
