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Journal Article
Ethos by the Numbers: Henry IV, Part One
2021
Overview
Beyond its origins in children's art, \"paint by numbers\" ushers in negative connotations: an art object that results from limiting the artist's work to the application of colors alone-subjects, forms, and colors having been decided in advance-would seem to have little status as art at all. [...]Falstaff's numerical sequence is a metonymy for his characteristically illimitable speech and identity. [...]even if the audience is positioned with Hal, the dialogue does not demand that we summarily dismiss Falstaff's claims, even though he is evidently aware of his own lies. [...]numbers here have an emotional richness that is both cause and effect of their local capacity for order-even the order of otherwise disordered things, like Falstaff's chaotic personality. In these moments, the pair exists for the benefit of Hal's own self-characterization, and numbers prime the audience to accept Hal at his word, as in the retelling of the Gad's Hill episode.2 Ethical interpretation of Hal's encounter with Francis depends on distinguishing a \"joke on\" someone from a \"joke with\" someone.
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Associated University Presses
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