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To enjoy Shakespeare’s history plays it is necessary to have some idea of the Elizabethan ‘world-picture’, which was very different from our own. We regard the chaotic state of the political world as ‘natural’, whereas to an Elizabethan a dis-ordered war-torn state was definitely ‘everything that seems un-natural’ (Henry V, V.ii.62).
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© 1986 Helen Morris
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Morris, H. (1986). Themes and Issues. In: Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08217-9_4
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