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Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, 2017, p.105-152
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Central to the play’s concern with truth is the question of oaths and vows:
those words which serve to stabilise in human conduct the relationship between
past, present, and future, are indispensable to the maintenance of justice
and law, and fundamental to the feudal-chivalric conception of nobility.
In Henry TV, oaths and vows are remembered from the past and enacted in
the present, and it might be said that the whole action turns on the making,
keeping, and breaking of such commitments.2 The proliferation of minor
asseverations such as To speak truly’, ‘as I am a gentleman’, ‘by the word of a
noble’, ‘as I am a true man’, Tfaith’, ‘Faith’, ‘in good sooth’, and ‘as true as I live’
seems to reflect the central significance as well as the questionable value of the
sworn pledge.