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In ‘Henry V’ Henry is presented by Shakespeare in a number of different roles: as a political figure, a private man, a leader and accomplished solder. Shakespeare’s dramatic portrait relies on presenting Henry through his words and actions, the different people he encounters as a King, and a warrior as well as a lover to Katherine, daughter of the King of France. In his youth Henry, as the audience might be aware from ‘Henry IV Parts One and Two’ as well as folklore, was rumoured to love what might be termed “street life” rather than the corridors of power at court. It is therefore dramatically important that Shakespeare introduces a transformed Henry which he does, in part through Canterbury and Ely’s discussion of the new King in Act One Scene One where they freely acknowledge: “never has such a sudden scholar made…” even though “the causes of his youth promised it not”. The new Henry is seen at his most impressive when he deals with the betrayal of Scroop, one of his old friends, by contriving a situation just before they sail for France where he has just appointed Scroop and his fellow would-be assassins as Commissioners. Henry then tells Scroop, Cambridge and Gray about a drunken man who had verbally abused him and qu
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Approximate Word count = 1744
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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