전쟁드라마 『헨리 5세』에 나타난 계층갈등과 이데올로기의 균열
The Class Struggle and Split of Ideology in Henry V
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At a time of national crises when a play is needed to stir up the patriotic passion and uphold the national policy, Henry V was written as a sequel to the previous popular play, Henry IV. Henry V is a play on a preeminent monarch in English history, performed at a time ideally suited to its subject, but the play was not a great success possibly because of its ambiguous standpoint of King Henry and his war. The starting point of this study is to pose a question about the reason why Shakespeare wrote his play in such a way that made the first audience disquieted and the later ones puzzled. This study investigates the above issue focusing on the historical background of the play which is the last stage of the English war of conquest against Ireland. Henry V implicitly represents the miserable situation of war in Ireland at the time through the depiction of King Henry’s French expedition a century ago. By this imaginative displacement of national category, the play articulates important political problems from the play’s context. This drama, which was written in the critical phase of England’s crises in Ireland, effectively suggests ambiguously different perspectives through the inconsistency between the narrative of Chorus which praises the heroic and militaristic perspective and the dramatic representations which interrupt, parody, and subvert these aspects. Especially the presence of the soldiers who doubt the justice of the war and speak directly to the concerns of potential conscripts for the war registers Shakespeare’s increasingly equivocal attitude toward English policy in Ireland. Finally, in Henry V, Shakespeare’s misgivings about Essex’s Irish campaign together with an awareness of public anxiety over the war in Ireland produce a skeptical counter-discourse about English expansionism.
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At a time of national crises when a play is needed to stir up the patriotic passion and uphold the national policy, Henry V was written as a sequel to the previous popular play, Henry IV. Henry V is a play on a preeminent monarch in English history, performed at a time ideally suited to its subject, but the play was not a great success possibly because of its ambiguous standpoint of King Henry and his war. The starting point of this study is to pose a question about the reason why Shakespeare wrote his play in such a way that made the first audience disquieted and the later ones puzzled. This study investigates the above issue focusing on the historical background of the play which is the last stage of the English war of conquest against Ireland. Henry V implicitly represents the miserable situation of war in Ireland at the time through the depiction of King Henry’s French expedition a century ago. By this imaginative displacement of national category, the play articulates important political problems from the play’s context. This drama, which was written in the critical phase of England’s crises in Ireland, effectively suggests ambiguously different perspectives through the inconsistency between the narrative of Chorus which praises the heroic and militaristic perspective and the dramatic representations which interrupt, parody, and subvert these aspects. Especially the presence of the soldiers who doubt the justice of the war and speak directly to the concerns of potential conscripts for the war registers Shakespeare’s increasingly equivocal attitude toward English policy in Ireland. Finally, in Henry V, Shakespeare’s misgivings about Essex’s Irish campaign together with an awareness of public anxiety over the war in Ireland produce a skeptical counter-discourse about English expansionism.
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