Gregory M. Colón Semenza (essay date winter 2001)
SOURCE: Colón Semenza, Gregory M. “Sport, War, and Contest in Shakespeare's Henry VI.” Renaissance Quarterly 54, no. 2 (winter 2001): 1251-72.
[In the following essay, Colón Semenza suggests that the decay of chivalric ideals, radical changes in the nature of warfare, and the clash of personal rivalries chronicled in the Henry VI trilogy are enhanced by Shakespeare's use throughout these plays of sport as a metaphor for war. The critic points out that allusions to warfare as a kind of...
Source: Shakespearean Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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