T H E P R O B L E M S
with the Henry V plays
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3 LHV
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1. The Famous Victories 1594(1598) of Henry V (F V H) [A n o n y m u s]
2. Q1 1600 The Chronicle History of Henry V (C H V) [S h a k e s p e a r e]
3. FF 1623 The Life of Henry V (L H V) [S h a ke s p e a r e]
3 Shakespeare's Folio play "The Life of Henry the Fift (LHV-1623 FF)" first appeared as a much
2 smaller Quarto "The Chronicle History of Henry V (C H V-1600- Q1).
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Prof. Bate in his Shakespeare MOOC course 2014 (lesson 4) dealt with "The War play Henry V". He explained how L H V relates to the play "The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth" (FVH-1598), a play of an anonymous author registered 1594 in the Stationers' Register (within the year of Marlowe's disappearance) but printed only 4 years later. (Prof.Bate:"...to be honest, [FVH] its not very good"! )
V H F bears distinctive similarities to L H V concerning title, title emblem and design, 15 plot elements have been identified that occur in both the anonymous play V H F and in the Henry trilogy. (Bate: "...Shakespeare later in the 1590ies set about reworking the story of F V H". How does Bate know?)
Leaving aside a closer relationship between FVH and L H V Prof. Bate should have given us a more plausible explanation...--->
--> a) Why Shakespeare was such a plagiarist and has "stolen" title, emblem and design from the unnamed author of FVH,
--> b) Who may have been the anonymous author 1594 of FVH and
--> c) when the extensive Changes, Additions and Augmentations of LHV
(compared to Q1 Q2 Q3 in CHV) were made?
Isn't there a better, simpler and more coherent theory for this bizzare and strange situation of
FVH, C H V and L H V ,
clearly related to the Authorship Problem?
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