“What watch the king keeps”: negotiating violence in kingship in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part two and Henry V

• Main Author: Ow, Luke Zhi Heng
• Other Authors: Wong Yeang Chui
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170376
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In his book Shakespeare and Violence, R. A. Foakes presents violence as a perennial part of the human story. Foakes writes “that while particular forms of violence may be socially produced at different times in relation to structures within society and changes in technology, the urge to violence is...