@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00027919,
 author = {Nakamura, Miki},
 journal = {IVY},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {In discussing 1 Henry IV, most critics in this century have regarded Prince Hal as the one who would provide the key to a full understanding of the play. Consequently, they consciously or unconsciously posited Prince Hal as the center of the play. This critical trend is partly derived from the fact that scholars are more or less fascinated by Prince Hal. Prince Hal proffers to them various images of ideality : Prince Hal as a man, as a ruler, and finally, as the embodiment of the English identity itself. It seems that critics inherit such conception of Prince Hal from the Elizabethan audiences who watched the play. Indeed, there were many reasons for the Elizabethan audiences to be intrigued by the prince. When 1 Henry IV was written and performed, there was a serious colonial problem in Ireland. Queen Elizabeth failed in her attempt to conquer Ireland repeatedly, and at that time English rule in Ireland became rather unstable. In contrast to such political situation, 1 Henry IV describes the suppression of foreign enemies by a male leader, Prince Hal ; the play dispels the anxieties concerning Ireland in a fictional way. For the Elizabethans, it seems reasonable to suppose, Prince Hal who brings the success looked attractive. What they wished for was nothing but the male ruler like Prince Hal who would remedy the colonial disarray. Together with these circumstances, the growing consciousness of national identity in late sixteenth-century England helped the Elizabethan construction of the image of Prince Hal as the embodiment of the English identity. From this view point we can assume that in 1 Henry IV Prince Hal is depicted as an ideal male ruler who represents the English identity, and the covert exclusion of Queen Elizabeth is carried out. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way in which the play begins to betray that assumption and   to consider what that betrayal indicates. In the first section of this essay we will examine the fashioning of the English identity represented by the prince. What the play shows us is the construction of the English identity by means of the oppression of the alien people. The term "the alien people" is used in this paper to refer to foreign people like the Welsh on the one hand, and women and the lower class people in the kingdom on the other hand. The oppression leads to a forceful definition of the alien people and the allotment of their status，and in this process the English identity is produced. The second section attempts to show how that identity is finally eroded by the menace of the alien people. We will see that our assumption is overthrown by this erosion. In the last section, considering this failure of assumption, Shakespeare's relation with the fictional figure of Prince Hal and Queen Elizabeth will be analyzed.},
 pages = {1--24},
 title = {Prince Hal, Queen Elizabeth, and the English Identity in 1 Henry IV},
 volume = {29},
 year = {1996}
}