The Mistaken and Apologetic Chorus
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Description: An essay by Julian Darius on the Chorus in Henry V.
The Mistaken and Apologetic Chorus: Shakespearean Faultlines in   /  23 Sep 2008 , performs two main functions: it frames the play's story, skewing its depictions in more patriotic light than they deserve, and it offers apology for the play's staging, compression of time, and ultimate inadequacy to its subject. The junctures between the chorus's interpretation of events and the play itself are easier to note, and we may seek to understand them as ironic, even as anti-patriotic, revealing the junctures inherent in patriotic propaganda. But the chorus's apologies for the play are well-deserved, and the play at times does not undercut the chorus's patriotic vision but rather affirms it in insidious ways. The chorus's statements thus parsed,
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