Representing Nameless Bodies in the Henry VI Trilogy
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This paper aims to explore how in the Henry VI trilogy Shakespeare dramatizes the deaths of the nameless soldiers who were slaughtered during the war between the nobles. The paper closely examines the two dramatic strategies Shakespeare intentionally adopts after finding that he is unable to dramatize numerous dead bodies on stage. It argues that Shakespeare first just mentions the numbers of dead soldiers without depicting the battle scenes, and then symbolically represents the slaughter of anonymous soldiers in a ritualistic scene, in which an anonymous father kills his son by chance and an unidentified son kills his father without knowing it. With both strategies of representing nameless bodies, this article maintains, Shakespeare highlights his ethical concern with anonymous soldiers’ suffering and their deaths, which are not counted as grievable deaths. In this sense, this essay contributes to revealing Shakespeare’s peaceful anti-war position. Although Shakespeare highly praises military prowess and the value of valor in the Henry VI trilogy, this article concludes, he, as an ethical writer, resists the very narrative authority that leads him to represent soldiers off stage and to make them nameless.
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This paper aims to explore how in the Henry VI trilogy Shakespeare dramatizes the deaths of the nameless soldiers who were slaughtered during the war between the nobles. The paper closely examines the two dramatic strategies Shakespeare intentionally adopts after finding that he is unable to dramatize numerous dead bodies on stage. It argues that Shakespeare first just mentions the numbers of dead soldiers without depicting the battle scenes, and then symbolically represents the slaughter of anonymous soldiers in a ritualistic scene, in which an anonymous father kills his son by chance and an unidentified son kills his father without knowing it. With both strategies of representing nameless bodies, this article maintains, Shakespeare highlights his ethical concern with anonymous soldiers’ suffering and their deaths, which are not counted as grievable deaths. In this sense, this essay contributes to revealing Shakespeare’s peaceful anti-war position. Although Shakespeare highly praises military prowess and the value of valor in the Henry VI trilogy, this article concludes, he, as an ethical writer, resists the very narrative authority that leads him to represent soldiers off stage and to make them nameless.
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