"Downright Blows and Cunning Fence: Hotspur's Rapier Modernity in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo352/
Author:
	Hodges, Kenneth.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2025
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Quarterly 76, no. 1 (2025): 64–72.
DOI:
	10.1093/sq/quaf001
Annotation:
	Points out that although Hotspur has often been interpreted as a medieval character in contrast to Prince Hal's early modernity, Hotspur "sees himself as the urbane, cosmopolitan, modern gentleman and Hal as the old-fashioned English throwback." Focuses on sword imagery, notably, Hotspur's "dismissive reference to that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales."
Language:
	English
Tags:
	1 Henry IV, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo352