Article: "A Plague of All Cowards:" "Macomber" and Henry IV.

THE SOURCE in 2 Henry IV for the Shakespeare quotation in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" was established some years ago (Hutton 243-44), but since then no one has explored very fully the possibility of its exerting a substantial influence upon the story.(1) In a brief essay, John J. McKenna and Marvin V. Petersen document Hemingway's enduring affection for the quotation and then contend that this attachment should have prevented Hemingway from having Wilson, who in their terms is "less than a paragon of moral rectitude," cite and endorse it (82). They conclude that Hemingway's doing so "thereby hands the reader and critic an unsolvable crux" and so "in his ...

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