ENGL 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bad Quarto, Popular Monarchy, Plebs

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The Life of Henry V
HENRY V (1599)
Bak  Popula Dead: The To Vesios of He V  Aael Patteso
Popular Monarchy
o Examine what it means for a king to be a king of the people
National Unity
o Unites England together; multiple countries, like Scotland & Wales, fighting together for England
Military Imperialism
5. Prologue. 22ff CHORUS
But now behold,
In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
How London doth pour out her citizens!
The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,
Like to the senators of the antique Rome,
With the plebeians swarming at their heels,
Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in:
As, by a lower but loving likelihood,
Were now the general of our gracious empress,
As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,
Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,
How many would the peaceful city quit,
To welcome him!
Octavo, Quarto, Folio (smallest largest)
Only printing of Henry V is in Quarto; this version is very different form the Folio version
Memorial reconstructed
o refers to the hypothesis that the scripts of some 17th century plays were written down from memory by
actors who had played parts in them, and that those transcriptions were published. The theory is
suggested as an explanation for the so-called "bad quarto" versions of plays, in which the text differs
dramatically from a later published version, or appears to be corrupted or confused.
Quarto (1600)
o The Choile Histo of He the fift. With his attel fought at Agi Cout i Fae. Togithe ith
Auntient Pistoll. As it hath bene sundry times playd by the Right honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his
seuats.
Folio (1623)
o It had been a thig, e ofess, orth to hae ee ished, that the Author hiself had li’d to hae set forth,
and overseen his own writings; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that
right, we pray you do not envy his Friends, the office of their care, and pain, to have collected and published them;
ad so to hae pulish’d the, as here efore ou ere aus’d ith dierse stole ad surreptitious opies,
maimed, and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious imposters, that epos’d the: ee those, ad o
offer’d to our ie ur’d, ad perfet of their lis; ad all the rest, asolute i their uers, as he oeied
the[m]. Who, as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went
together: And what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his
papers. … Read hi, therefore; ad agai, ad agai: ad if ou do ot like hi, surel ou are i soe aifest
danger, not to understand hi.”
5.2 HENRY V
Shall not thou and I,
between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a
boy, half French, half English, that shall go to
Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?
shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair
flower-de-luce?
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The Life of Henry V
5.3 CHORUS
Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story,
In little room confining mighty men,
Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
This star of England: Fortune made his sword;
By which the world's best garden be achieved,
And of it left his son imperial lord.
Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King
Of France and England, did this king succeed;
Whose state so many had the managing,
That they lost France and made his England bleed:
Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,
In your fair minds let this acceptance take.
Missing from Quarto
Bishops discussion of the motivation for war (1.1.)
Hostess’s lai that the Kig has killed Falstaff’s heat .
Hafleu episode, iludig the Oe oe uto the eah speeh .
“oldie’s deate & Kig’s solilou .
Discussions in the French camp (3.7 & 4.2)
Burgandy speech on the damages suffered by France (5.2)
Much of the wooing scene (5.2)
ALL FIVE CHORUSES
What do the Choruses do? How do we define it?
Gets/moves us places, clarifies things
2.Prolgue CHORUS
Now all the youth of England are on fire,
And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:
Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought
Reigns solely in the breast of every man:
They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,
Following the mirror of all Christian kings,
With winged heels, as English Mercuries.
For now sits Expectation in the air,
And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,
Promised to Harry and his followers.
2.2.30ff
PISTOL
Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of
Iceland!
Hostess
Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your
sword.
NYM
Will you shog off? I would have you solus.
PISTOL
'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!
The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;
The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,
And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,
And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!
I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;
For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,
And flashing fire will follow.
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In the quick forge and working-house of thought, The mayor and all his brethren in best sort, Like to the senators of the antique rome, Go forth and fetch their conquering caesar in: Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from ireland coming, With his (cid:271)attel fought at agi(cid:374) cou(cid:396)t i(cid:374) f(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e. togithe(cid:396) (cid:449)ith. Who, as he was a happy imitator of nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together: and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers. Read hi(cid:373), therefore; a(cid:374)d agai(cid:374), a(cid:374)d agai(cid:374): a(cid:374)d if (cid:455)ou do (cid:374)ot like hi(cid:373), surel(cid:455) (cid:455)ou are i(cid:374) so(cid:373)e (cid:373)a(cid:374)ifest danger, not to understand hi(cid:373). Shall not thou and i, between saint denis and saint george, compound a boy, half french, half english, that shall go to. And of it left his son imperial lord.

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