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Article: The Performing Heir in Jonson's Jacobean Masques.(playwright Ben Jonson)(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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When the Prince of Wales, in the film version of Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George, pleads for "something to do," his father replies: "Follow in my footsteps, that's what you should do." [1] In Prince Henry's Barriers (1610), Ben Jonson presents the young heir to the throne with similar advice: Henry should imitate an earlier prince who acted for his father rather than for himself. In battle, Prince Edward had captured a plume "[f]rom the Bohemian crown," which plume "for his crest he did preserve / To his father's use with this fit word: I serve." [2] This motto an what it represents--the son's virtuous actions undertaken for the credit of the father--may serve ...
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