Prince Frederick (far right) breaks into the meeting of the "Henry V" club, a painting by Charles Phillips.
According to a new exhibition exploring the relationship between Shakespeare's works, from Frederick in the early 18th century to Charles today, a series of Welsh princes have associated themselves with Shakespeare's Prince Hal as a way to justify the excesses of young people and promise strong leadership and royalty in the future.
Prince Hal was the companion of the debauched Falstaff in the first and second installments of Shakespeare's play Henry IV, but won a military victory against Henry V.
Hal's profligacy is a trick to make his final role more dramatic:
"I will imitate the sun here, / who allows the clouds of the lower levels to infect / strangle his beauty from the world, / When he is willing to be himself again, / Wanted, he may want to know more."
The new digital exhibition Making History: Shakespeare and the Royal Family draws on paintings, books, drawings, prints, letters, essays, furniture and photographs from the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives to explore the real-life Prince of Wales – the title given to the apparent heir – actively seeking a comparison with Hal.
Obviously, the most eye-catching figure in this exhibition is the current Prince of Wales, Prince Charles.
The first heir to the British throne, the longest-reigning Crown Prince in history, was very appreciative of Prince Hal, and even played Hal in the scene in the first part of Henry IV in the 1990s audiobook.
Charles seemed to believe he shared with Prince Hal the test awaiting the throne.
Shakespeare portrays Prince Hal as a bohemian character who is introduced to farting with friends in a bar and planning a robbery on the highway. Eventually, he became a sober, sane monarch.
Charles always seemed to have been adamant that he was such a prince, and even though I drank, robbed, and was debauched, I would eventually break free into a sane, responsible monarch.
Unfortunately, he did not have the relaxed public opinion environment in Shakespeare's works, and in this era of rapid information dissemination, even small mistakes will be magnified, not to mention the prince's "debauchery" behavior.
The British media's evaluation of Prince Charles's behavior since Prince Bihar is:
Just as children like to pretend to be kings and queens, royals like to exaggerate their self-image.
Prince Charles did not care about this, and replied:
"If you're the Prince or heir of Wales, you can't be like a monarch," Charles said. "But the idea that if I had to succeed, I would continue in exactly the same way is utter nonsense, because the two situations are completely different." You only have to look at Shakespeare's plays, the first and second parts of Henry V or Henry IV to see what changes might occur. Because if you become sovereign, then you will play the role in the way you expect. ”
This passage is not surprisingly filled with royal arrogance — "My origin, my status, is completely different from yours, and if you are not the heir, you do not know how to spend your youth as a future monarch." ”
Prince Charles's popular reputation in britain is also inferior to that of his son, Prince William, not only because of his debauchery, but also because of his emotional dispute with Camilla after marriage, and the developed newspaper industry in Britain has also added a fire to it.
According to Tom Ball's recent biography of The Rebellious Prince, Prince Charles once screamed when he saw a "mysterious" plastic covering his dinner, and Camilla comforted: "It's plastic wrap, honey." ”
Charles and Camilla
Another report was that at a dinner party in High Grove, Charles had booked exotic flowers (£100 per stem) from South Africa to decorate, and according to Bauer, he had traveled from High Grove to Penrith on the Royal Train to visit a pub, a trip that cost £18,916 (£1 or about 8.9 yuan).
If Charles thought all this pomp and excess could be understood as his Prince Hal's heyday, well—his Henry V would let it all come to the surface, and after truly inheriting the throne, there would be countless pairs of eyes staring at him to see if he could deliver on his promise as a wise monarch.
Prince Charles is just one of the most familiar examples of britain, and the British crown princes, who we don't know very well, seem to love a life of pomp and indulgence.
Items on display include an image of a carved oak cradle in which Prince Henry, later Henry V, swayed, and was purchased by Edward VII in 1908.
The man, who had been the longest-reigning prince in Wales history before his coronation in 1901, had some feelings for Shakespeare's 'Prince Hal'.
Professor Gordon McMullen, principal investigator at King's College London's Shakespeare Centre in London, said:
"It's a very clear tradition that the princes of Wales made this connection very consciously to express the idea that if someone sniped at them when they were young, see what they would look like when they grew up, and then be kings,"
Divided into eight sections, the exhibition uses new archival research to explore the centuries-old connection between Shakespeare and the Royal Family, from a collection of Shakespeare's works containing handwritten notes made shortly before Charles I's execution in 1649, to a painting by Thomas Gainesborough depicting the love affair between actress and poet Mary Robinson and George IV, Prince of Wales.
"'What did Shakespeare do for the royal family, and what did the royal family do for Shakespeare?' "Shakespeare told the history of royalty in his plays; his works taught members of the royal family how to perform for the public, helped shape royal ideology, and had a vital impact on the education of young members of the royal family." ”
We are not sure of this series of transformations, to become a rational monarch, the only thing that can be determined is that even if there is a rational monarch, there is no fundamental change in society, there is never any savior, only their own efforts.
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