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“Wildness” Within Mobility in Shakespeare’s King Henry IV and Henry Ⅴ
ZHANG Han
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2021.08.003
Southwest University, Chongqing, China
In the past fifty years, scholars have examined fields of England’s politics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; however, the politics of mobility has not been extensively studied. This article addresses Prince Hal and King Henry Ⅴ’s wildness within mobility as an important role to the advancement of metaphorical wildness. King Henry V’s “wildness” is an element that is often discussed in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry Ⅴ. Locating in Prince Hal’s wandering to uncertainty, unsettledness and changeability a potential to unveil the disguised aspects of the assumed politics, Shakespeare focuses on the interlocking aspect of wildness and mobility. He calls for exploring a recognition of ideal character and tactical figure into a transitional strategy of it. In reorganising civil culture, Shakespeare sees the possibility of re-configuring the approach from aimless roaming to communal mobility. It is the approach of these mobilities through ways of wildnes that permits us to explore between wildness as a strategy and as a metaphor, and to understand in the notion of early modern mobility that is as tactical in ambition as it is consequential in such contexts of Shakespeare.
wildness, mobility, Shakespeare, Prince Hal, King Henry IV, King Henry V
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, August 2021, Vol. 11, No. 8, 570-578
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