University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series (Feb 2022)
HENRY V: THE MACHIAVELLIAN PRODUCTION OF AN IDEAL KING
Abstract
The present paper aims to analyse the Machiavellian power strategy that Prince Hal, the new King Henry V, develops in Henry V in order to construct a legitimate self-image. We shall argue that Hal manages to become, by means of an extremely calculated technology of self-representation, the successful Machiavellian producer of his own hero-image.
