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Henry Percy
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hotspur
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Hotspur is a nickname of Sir Henry Percy (1364–1403), known as Harry Hotspur , eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland Hotspur may also refer to: Sir Henry Percy as depicted in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 Football clubs: Holyhead Hotspur F.C. Pietà ...
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Holy-rood Day the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy, and brave Archibald, That ever-valiant and approved Scot, At Holmedon met.
Northumberland met the same Hotspur who had once fought against his grandfather.
Shakespeare cannot make use of this interesting fact, since it would wreck the basic interest of the play, which depends on making Hotspur and the Prince of Wales approximately the same age.
Prince as he has immortalized the gallant young Hotspur, and no possible debunking in this book or any other can wipe out the Shakespearean picture and replace it with what is, after all, merely truth.
Indeed, Hotspur might fairly argue that he was proposing a generous compromise against his own best interest.
It is the comparison of Hotspur and Prince Hal that is the core of the play, and we surely feel that the Prince, however convivial he might be with Falstaff, would never meet a high crisis with the kind of low comedy Hotspur has just offered.
Northumberland, Hotspur is trying to gather together the different forces that might make part of the conspiracy.
While Hotspur is engaged in foolhardy but romantic knight-errantry, Prince Hal is whiling away his time in a tavern in Eastcheap.
In fact, he mentions him and describes him in such a way as to burlesque the earlier scene between Hotspur and his wife.
Prince Hal forgets matters of importance in his preoccupation with laughing, but Hotspur forgets matters of importance in his preoccupation with killing.
Glendower states his claims to supernatural powers over and over, while Hotspur stubbornly continues to sneer.
It would be more populous and wealthy than either of the other portions and it might be supposed that both Glendower and Hotspur would swear to some sort of surface allegiance to Mortimer.
Still, the conditions of the rebellion are such and the services of Glendower and Hotspur of that sort as to make any control over them impossible.
If they had up to this point admired Hotspur for his bravery and gallantry, they could scarcely admire him any further.
It may well be to encourage the audience to lose that admiration more thoroughly that Shakespeare has Hotspur act so childishly in this scene.