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Article: The common good and the necessity of war: emergent republican ideals in Shakespeare's Henry V and Coriolanus.
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- Comparative Drama
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- March 22, 2006
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The Chorus in act 5 of Henry Vlikens Henry's victory to that of Julius Caesar: Like to the senators of th' antique Rome / With the plebeians swarming at their heels,/Go forth and fetch their conqu'ring Caesar in." (1) To envisage a scene of national triumph for an English king, Shakespeare chose the Roman republic with all sections of the population participating in the triumph--the plebeians and the senators, who presumably included the patricians, although a substantial number of the latter were absent at Caesar's triumph. The sense of a national triumph brings to mind the idea of a matter for common rejoicing, of the common good that involved the entire body of the ...
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