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Critics generally agree that Prince Hal, later King Henry V, is Shakespeare’s most penetrating characterization of a master politician. Because Hal is a politician, his psychological development as an imagined person especially focusses on his mode of engagement with his roles.1 A behaviorist approach, by providing a specific analysis of how modes of role-playing in various situations affect what characters see, feel, think, and do, yields particularly valuable insights into Hal and his career. In this chapter technical behaviorist terms are used less than in the chapter on Hamlet, yet each important mode of thought and behavior is explained fully at least once. The chapter traces Hal’s career through the three plays on his life, with special emphasis on Henry IV, Part 1 as the play in which the direction of his psychological development is established. |
