The Legitimacy of Rule and Kingship in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2

By setting the inception of henry IV, amid political dissymmetry and fierce rebellion, questions of kingship and the genuineness of that top executive atomic number 18 immediately bedevil to the forefront of audience brain; yet, it is these tensions which drive the plot. The bleak spread lines spoken by henry IV: so move as we be, so demented with c atomic number 18  atomic number 18 understandable when considering that the nation he rules everywhere is holy terrorened on 2 borders and that the very nobles who brought him to power atomic number 18 now attempting to unseat him. The threat of the Scottish is made every last(predicate) the more ominous since they are aided by the Yankee nobles, who assisted Henry when he usurped Richard II, as they have already proved their efficiency when it comes to removing a crowned monarch. In assenting there is the threat from the Welsh, which is increase by the marriage of Edmund Mortimer (a absorbed Englishman) to the d aughter of the Welsh leader, upset since Mortimer arguably has a soften claim to the throne than the Kings own. In the uncertain world which we are presented with in the opening guessings of 1 Henry IV we are liable to ask we are likely to question the legitimacy of the monarch in copulation to the volatility of the country and the consequences of rebelling against a ruler.\nOne obvious bill for the current troubles plaguing Henry is that he is not the rightful king, since he deposed his cousin Richard II, making his rule unlawful. D S Kastan1 claims; The palpable source of instability rests in the manner in which Henry has become king  and it is undeniable that the memory of Richard II haunts these plays. In Act 1 scene 3 Hotspur even unfavorably compares Henry with his predecessor: Richard, that sweetly lovely rose / And go down this spine, this canker, Bolingbroke (I.iii.174-5). There is an almost botch quality to the image of a rose and a thorn and definitely a understanding of hierarchy; that one is exquisite and the other ugly and sharp. Perhaps...