...Hal Gladfelder © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Hal Gladfelder is assistant professor of English at the University of Rochester and author of Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law (2001). The Hard Work of Doing Nothing: Richard Savage’s...

...Hal Gladfelder Abstract The advent of a new political regime in Italy in the 1790s led to decrees banning castrati from the stage and the closure of the singing academies where they taught. But seventy years later the composer Gioacchino Rossini looked back to the castrati as the last adepts...

..., and in connec- tion, I think, with two recent holist versions of the histories. In 1951, the “second tetralogy” was presented as such at Stratford, and the commemorative volume issued the following year is elo uent testimony to the enormous influence of Tillyard’s view. About Hal, for example, playe9d...

... Hal as “an ‘interior’ version of Shakespeare the controlling playwright .”3 The shift in the sonnets from the young man subsequence to that of the dark lady marks a shift in poetic voice from the “homoerotic” and “homogeneous” to the “heteroerotic” and “heterogeneous,” from...

... Rudo 1p h Fieh1 er . 17 (3) In the old play Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, Old- castle, familiarly called Jockie, occupies the place of Falstaff as one of Prince Hal’s thieving followers. (4) The 1600 Quarto of 2 Henry IV has a mistaken speech-prefix Old. where one would...

.... The parasite, who included glut- tony in his bill-of-fare of virtues, supplies the background of Fal- staff’s sponging on Prince Hal and of his predatory visits to Shal- low and to Page; but Falstaff’s merry meetings with the Prince, which give most of the merriment to Henry IV, reflect...

... of the politician, a man whose mind is limited to the contem- plation of the purely political; and in this-more importantly-his son, whose development into his royal vocation is the central theme of the whole series, reflects him. On most aspects of Prince Hal’s character, as developed in the two...

..., Prince Hal rioting with Falstaff in the tavern, and Hotspur and the other noble rebels, who would themselves divide the realm into three parts as the playwright does. The tragedy of the impetuous but unfeigned Hotspur—who would leap to the moon and dive beneath the sea for the sake of honor...

... Shakespeare plays, its principal foci are Hamlet and the second tetralogy. Both are concerned with legacy and inheri- tance, and both portray the latter as problematic. Hamlet and Prince Hal face very different but equally vexing dilemmas on the way to royal succes- sion and paternal approval...