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Natalie Booth Y12 12/03/2004 How does Shakespeare present King Henry to his audience? Throughout the play Shakespeare uses a variety of methods, to carefully construct the presentation of Henry's character to his audiences. Within the play devices are used to portray Henry's kingly qualities and his suitability in his position of King. Thoughts and emotions are provoked in the reader deliberately by Shakespeare so that he can manipulate and control the audience's perception of Henry as a person. In this essay I will be exploring and investigating the emotions and judgements created by Shakespeare's various conventions. In the first scene we find the two religious leaders, Archbishop of Canterbury and Ely discussing, in depth, Henrys character. The description of the changes within Henrys character reminds the audience of his wild and reckless behaviour as 'Prince Hal' in the previous books Henry the IV (part 1 and 2). But the mental image created within the...

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