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- Title
The Functions of Forgetfulness in 1 Henry IV.
- Authors
Dunn, Jonni Koonce
- Abstract
In 1 Henry IV, William Shakespeare proposes judicious forgetfulness as a positive strategy for achieving power despite its pathologized position in early modern culture as well as its seeming incompatibility with the recording of history. Nietzschean ideas of forgetfulness and plasticity, Langerian concepts of comedy, and the notion of a unifying national amnesia inform a contrast of the functions of forgetfulness for Henry IV, Prince Hal, and Falstaff in 1 Henry IV.
- Subjects
HENRY IV (Play : Shakespeare); HENRY IV, King of England, 1367-1413; EARLY modern history; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; COMEDY; CULTURE
- Publication
Studies in Philology, 2016, Vol 113, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0039-3738
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sip.2016.0000