Article: The Performing Heir in Jonson's Jacobean Masques.(playwright Ben Jonson)(Critical Essay)

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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